I have put together a “tool” kit of sorts to help anyone who is just starting out with scripting with javascript. I used javascript sparingly the first few years that I was scripting web applications and sites and it wasn’t until the last year that I really became infatuated with the scripting language.

My understanding of javascript has increased as I have scoured google.com looking for functions and frameworks to fulfill my page or project needs, but I still feel there is a lot more to learn. I have decided to create this list to help anyone who might just be starting out and needs some direction. Read More

Having to mess with forms all the time, I was beginning to go crazy tweeking different messages. One for success, one for failure, one for help, etc.

I decided to try to combine some css with some javascript to make a nice reusable piece to display my form messages. Here is the fruit of that labor.

The function is going to take three arguments. The first argument is a message and or list of messages. The second is the id of the node you would like to stick the message before. The last argument is a classname.

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So at work today, I wanted to see if I could create a lame mouse over effect to let feel like they were highlighting a listing. I wanted to pop out the moused over listing on the page by putting a thin border around the moused over div and then change the background. I was able to create the effect with javascript and coldfusion very easily. Because I don’t host this site on a coldfusion server, I will just show the javascript with some rendered HTML.

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