Saturday, 20th September 2003
“Interactive Tabular Data”
Just spotted in a comment by Drew McLellan on Russell Beattie’s Notebook:
[... 147 words]Auto-complete text boxes
There’s a great new article up on Sitepoint describing a technique for adding auto-complete functionality to normal HTML text input fields using Javascript. The code uses a whole bunch of browser-specific code, but it has to thanks to the unconsistent ways in which different browsers handle text selection ranges. Unfortunately the article doesn’t actually provide a demo of the code in action, so I’ve posted one here. It’s a very nice effect.
[... 86 words]The pirate’s code
So, now that “talk like a pirate” day has sadly come to an end, it’s time to reveal the five minute code hack that rendered my front page semi-legible for the best part of a day. It was actually pretty simple:
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