Form Contorls – And some jQuery solutions
I was researching a little Twitter meets jQuery and I stumbled on this blog post. While it was helpful, and I may consider using the plugin, it was what the developer had 'tweeted' about that caught my eye and caused this post to exist. You see he had posted two links to form controls. The first link was ideas/new controls, and the second was the jQuery solution to those form controls. Since our interal apps department made the switch finally started using jQuery -as it was pointed out how easy it makes things and how it can improve their existing code (smaller, better, faster)- last week from in addition to prototype to jQuery, I thought they would get a little added bonus out of this post (since they use a ton of form controls).
So first up, a link to a nice form controls gallery (it even posts which js libs can accomplish such feats)
And secondly a link to the jQuery solutions to each of the form control interfaces
Between those two pages, you can dress up any page, form, or what-have-you to do almost anything you want. And it will look like the fresh-burnination* doing it.
Another short and sweet post.
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*fresh-burnination is a tribute to strongbad, and the Men In Black, with a little CW (WB) mockery thrown in. It is derived from the "new hotness", strongbad style, or the "fresh burnination".
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February 27th, 2009 - 09:14
Ahem… I would not go so far as to say that have “made the switch,” but rather that we are using both prototype and jquery, as each offers certain advantages over the other.
It is unlikely that we will ever completely convert to jquery, although it is certainly a brilliant library in it’s own right.
February 28th, 2009 - 09:06
@Michael
Noted, and updated in the post.