I’ve been watching so many folks out there doing cool things with jQuery, and it’s time to bite the bullet and get up to speed. I wanted to take a look at something I’d recently posted about and see how I could do it with jQuery rather than pure JavaScript to see what the differences…
I’ve noticed over the last few months that many of the SharePoint blogs which I’ve been following for years have sort of gone away. They are actually still there, but rather than being a source of great, insightful information about new ways to do things with SharePoint, tips and tricks, code snippets, and the like,…
If you’ve got a text-align attribute in your CSS and all looks well in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox, there’s a simple (though non-sensical) fix. It seems that Firefox doesn’t honor the text-align attribute all the time, but there’s a Mozilla-specific tag which will force it to play nicely: The CSS above will right-justify…
Many so-called Web 2.0 sites show a little icon for any links which send you out of their purview to another site. This is a nice thing to do within SharePoint as well. You can easily make this happen without users needing to take any action by adding some JavaScript into your master page. I…
It’s truly fun what you can find out on the Web to help out you these days. Here’s another one: a "fake Latin" generator. You know that unintelligible text that you see in content when you’re looking at a demo? Well, it’s there on purpose to prevent you from focusing on the text and instead…
Say you have a list of people (or rooms or products or whatever) where you would like to let the user specify the first letter of the person and then show them all of the people’s names which start with that letter. Doable, of course, and a nice little recursive XSL template can get you…
If you’ve been around for a while and/or you subscribe to Consumer Reports Magazine, you know what Harvey Balls are. They are little circles with varying amounts filled in which can be used to represent a level of completeness, sophistication, match to a standard, etc. They are a good replacement for numerical scales in many…
UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID. Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. UPDATE 2009-10-01: I’ve posted an update on this idea. It’s possible to simplify the interstitial page using the Web Services from the jQuery Library for…
UPDATE 2010-08-26: I’ve added this template to the SPXSLT project on Codeplex. There’s a bit more explanation there. UPDATE 2010-04-27: Shalin Parmar pointed out in a comment below that I had a bug in the template where the separator would only be displayed between the first and second values. I’ve made a change to the template to…
Here’s another case where looking at my blog stats gave me an idea for a post. There were several searches about the apostrophe character which led people to my blog today: sharepoint data view apostrophe dataview apostrophe problem sharepoint The apostrophe character (‘ or ' or ASCII character 39) is a bit of a trickster…