Setting your tabindex on your html forms automatically with jQuery
The tabindex is absolutely necessary for controlling the tab order through a really long form, from a usability and accessibility standpoint. This is probably not the preferred way to do this, you should be setting the tabindex attribute on all of your input elements in your html. Now if you work with lazy [...]
Prevent double submit with jQuery
Another great “little” solution with jQuery. Needed a simple way to protect all the forms on our site from being double submitted. There was an attempted solution in place on our app, that added an onsubmit to every form with a function above it called ignoreDoubleSubmit that tried to trap the event of [...]
Input focus with jQuery
Form input focus always seems a pain to me, I don’t like all of the generated inline javascript that struts or other frameworks add to accomplish this and it always seems to be one issue or another. So here’s a simple solution that applies focus to the last input element in the document that [...]
Default html button submit on enter with JQuery
I basically needed the update button to be the default action on clicking enter in the form, but there were multiple submit buttons in my form and they weren’t in the order I needed due to UI design. This was a quick and dirty solution to select an html submit button and make it [...]
Suckerfish DHTML dropdown menu with JQuery
DHTML dropdown menu’s have been greatly improved in terms of accessibility, standards compliance, and weight using the Suckerfish technique of building pure CSS-based menus and then attaching a small javascript that allows Internet Explorer 6 to mimic the CSS hover method. Once the die-hards hanging onto IE6 let go, we won’t have to worry [...]