Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Simple JQuery way to detect links pointing to external domains

Ever wanted to detect links on your site that point to other domains? A few times in the past I've had requests to be able to pick out all the hyperlinks from a site that move a user to a different domain.

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Book review: jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide

This is a review of a book that Packt Publishing (http://www.packtpub.com/) have just sent me: JQuery titles, jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide.

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JQuery Sortable Drag and Drop lists and a server side AJAX save

I was recently asked this question about creating and using elements with the JQuery drag and drop functions:

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1Shaun, I'd like to be able to drag items (let's say grocery items) onto a list (let's say a grocery list) using JQuery and PHP to process and save the list. I found you drag and drop tutorial but I want the droppable to be in a list form. Is this easy?

This article explains how you can use a few JQuery interactions to create a sortable drag and drop list and save its state to a server side processing template.

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JQuery datatable with added FancyBox and auto refresh

Recently I've had a few questions about how to use the datatables plugin to display data, and also integrate a pop up or lightbox function. The pop up would have an edit form in it, and when the user completes the edit the light box goes away and the datatable refreshes.

This is relatively straightforward to do, but there are several key concepts to getting everything working correctly, so I've broken it down into a few chunks.

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