Category Archives: JavaScript

JQuery Validate for 3 field date

A difficult and challenging task I had been given is to use the JQuery validate.js to validate the date fields, but this was then split out into 3 fields. One for day, month and of course year, which sounds easy, but it was not. The issue comes that validate.js is built to validate one field on its own and we wanted to validate not just each field, but also as a whole date.

ARIA Control JavaScript Library

This libraries purpose is to automatically inject the necessary tags and commands to the users mark-up, so that it meets the standards as much as possible. There are also commands for the users to inject the methods on to specific parts if the library does not get them automatically. Also the automatic functionality can be turned off if only partly needed.

Galen Framework Hover in JavaScript

A bit of a small audience for this one, but a project I was put on wanted to us the Galen Framework to test their UI. For people who do not know what this framework is, it is a method of writing acceptance code that matches up to the output in the browser window. This can be coded to work for all different device, sizes and URLs. One hard space I came to was to action the hover state of an element and then test it.

How to Force clear cache

As all developers know our best friend and worst enemy is the cache. You can make all your changes and be confident they will work, then they don’t change just when you want them to. It is great that you can clear your own cache, but how can you refresh all the users cache? HereContinueContinue reading “How to Force clear cache”

Good, Bad and the Ugly Commenting

I feel that it is important to comment your code and make sure that the next developer that uses the project knows what the hell you have done. However I have seen over the time I have been developing a lot of different ways people comment, so here are some of the dos and doContinueContinue reading “Good, Bad and the Ugly Commenting”

MS Word special characters Regex

That pesky Microsoft! They have to be different and mess us developers around don’t they. Have you ever noticed that Microsoft Word’s symbols look a bit different or act a little odd? Well it’s because they are not the standard char characters. This can be a pain for Regex and other things. So how doContinueContinue reading “MS Word special characters Regex”

Sticky Menu Bar code and example

This is a bit of a feature a lot of websites use and love, which is the Sticky Menu Bar. This could also be used for things like a cookie policy bar as well, but what ever the use it is a good feature. However I see some people add these with some terrible codeContinueContinue reading “Sticky Menu Bar code and example”