Trond Ulseth's Blog - DHTML / Javascript

Alternate row colors with jQuery

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:22:00 -0600

I was in the need of a script for alternating row colors in a table on a web site I'm doing. I've done this before, but since I'm getting into jQuery these days I thought I'd try to find a way of doing it using this. Well, a little Googling and I came upon this website. This is an excerpt from the book Learning jQuery. Need to try and get my boss to buy that one.

Dealing with IE6 and png's - part 2

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:48:00 -0600

Ok - here's the long awaited follow up to this little series of posts dealing with IE6 and png's. The last time we saw how we can make use of transparent png's as backgrounds in our site layouts, included in our .css files. But what if we want to use png in our html source like so:

Here's the way I prefer to deal with such situations. This method is a "implement once, work on all images" kinda thing. The downside, but one I'm willing to live with, is that the IE user has to have JavaScript enabled. First create a pngfix.js file and paste the following into it:


var arVersion = navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE")
var version = parseFloat(arVersion[1])

if ((version >= 5.5) && (document.body.filters)) 
{
   for(var i=0; i" 
         img.outerHTML = strNewHTML
         i = i-1
      }
   }
}

Then in the head of your page you do this:

As much as I wish I was smart enough to come up with this my self, the credit goes to Bob Osola who in turn is crediting more people on his site.

A nice countdown script

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:24:00 -0600

A client today requested a running countdown displayed on his web page. I did as I always do in such cases - I googled to see if I could find a good one (no point in re-inventing the wheel every time). Pretty soon I found DHTML Easy Countdown by a guy named Andrew Urquhart. Seems like there is more stuff on his site worth looking into as well.