Using jquery.bgpos.js with jQuery 1.8

 Posted on August 29, 2012  |  2 minutes  |  Nelson Wells

Today, I spent way too much time working on a front-end problem to a code base that I wasn’t very familiar with. This project’s animated navigation menu stopped working when upgrading from jQuery 1.7 to jQuery 1.8, and we needed jQuery 1.8 because of another dependency. After digging my way through the code, I finally found that the problem was occurring because Alexander Farkas’ jquery.bgpos.js jQuery plugin was not compatible with jQuery 1. [Read More]
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jQuery change event on checkbox

 Posted on June 4, 2010  |  1 minutes  |  Nelson Wells

A lot of times, you’ll want to call a javascript function when a checkbox is changed from unchecked to check and vice versa. Up until the release of jQuery 1.4, the obvious way to do it (the jQuery .change() event) did not work properly across all versions of Internet Explorer. Instead, you had to check for the .click() event. This was an accessibility problem because it did not fire when a user changed a checkbox with the space bar instead of by clicking. Well, now we can rejoice. The following code snippet works exactly how you think it would across browsers, including IE.

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