Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Adding hash values into URLs - The basics

Building a site that uses AJAX to Asynchronously import content into it? You can take advantage of the URL hash value and some of the functionality it gives you.

By inserting a hash character into the URL you can pick up the string following it and use it as a value in AJAX requests. Also you can create a listener event to check for a hash being added to a URL and use that to activate your custom JavaScript.

This blog entry is an intro to this process, where we deal with adding the hash value into a URL.

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Using JQuery to dynamically add form fields to a page

I'd seen a few different ways of dynamically adding form fields to a web page but hadn't ever tried it. I was interested in seeing how exactly you can do this at a technical level, but also how you can manage the users interactions, allowing them to keep adding fields as they complete the previously added ones.

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Super small JQuery / JavaScript image mouseover script

I've been developing more and more rich content using JQuery / JavaScript and today I spent a little time researching and putting together an image mouseover script.

Sure, there are loads of them already, but I really wanted to see how compact and efficient I could get this simple bit of functionality.

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What's with all the kittens? -Discovering the Easter Eggs in www.wdyl.com

Google recently released 'What do you love' .com. It is a site that pulls together a whole raft of services and themes their content based on your search criteria. It performs a book search, video search and a whole load more, you can give it a try here: www.wdyl.com

In typical Google fashion they have not left the site in a merely 'working' state, they have added a whole load of Easter Eggs (hidden features). This article explores some of them and how they work.

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