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jQuery Plugin for Equal Height Divs

Author: benjaminOn: Jan 15Categories: JavaScript, jQuery, Web Development No Comments

For a nice organized design, e.g. to present an article overview, you might want to use several div-s with an equal height. Mattbanks has published an easy to use jQuery plugin to include to your website: https://github.com/mattbanks/jQuery.equalHeights...

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jQuery Mobile: Removing 300ms click delay

Author: benjaminOn: Dec 27Categories: JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Web Development No Comments

jQuery Mobile adds a 300ms delay to clicks to be able to detect double clicks. 300ms is not long, but influences the user experience. If your application does not make use of double clicks, you can reduce or completely remove this delay. A good jQuery...

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jQuery Mobile: Controlling loading animation at any time

Author: benjaminOn: Dec 27Categories: JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile No Comments

jQuery Mobile provides a loader widget to display a loading animation (also known as spinner, ajax loader, etc…). jQuery automatically uses this dialog, when it comes to loading ajax content. This dialog is also usefull if you do some processing...

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Backbone.js empty Collection and LocalStorage

Author: benjaminOn: Nov 10Categories: JavaScript, Mobile Development, Web Development No Comments

If you use a Backbone.js Collection with an integrated LocalStorage to save your models, you might need to empty this collection and the LocalStorage, too. Invoking reset() on the collection does not have the required effect because it does not clean...

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