[jQuery] Re: Superfish vertical menu quirks???

2009-03-22 Thread johny why
how do you make it drop up? thanks

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-21 Thread johny why
sadly, i doubt any other group will participate as passionately as the you geeks.

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
"what does this have to do with jQuery?" --this topic is on the jquery forum, because problems with a jQuery component, Superfish, caused me to devise this method. The superfish support page directed me to this forum for support. the author of the plugin has not spoken up yet. (I imagine th

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
Eric Garside, thanks for the cross-browser alert. that's new issue. researching..

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
there is another well-established programming principle-- modularity. the idea is the less tightly-coupled components are, the easier it is to upgrade any one of them, or switch it out with a replacement. one technique to achieve modularity is to reduce the scope of variables-- keep the variable-n

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
because none of the proposed functional problems have proven truly significant, the debate has become one of principle. Eric Garside's critique is that you're not SUPPOSED to use !important this way. my one strict rule is to never strictly follow strict rules. i believe a wise programmer understan

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
"it's an ugly hack" --people who take pride in the purity of their code might take offense at a solution which is based on expediency, rather than programming dexterity. this debate seems partly to be about programming pride vs. expediency. i wish i had the resources to hire one of you gurus, but

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
EFFORT the reason i don't want to CHANGE the css is because my site-css was designed to display my site properly, the widget-css was designed to display the widget properly. if i make changes in either, it's opening a can of worms. "inspecting an element in firebug to see where it's getting it's

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
(wow. and i thought there was nothing left to say on this topic! :) SIZE ryan, SIZE has not yet been mentioned in the thread-- glad you mentioned it. with superfish, at least, the extra !important rules have no noticeable effect on my page-load time, in IE, firefox, or chrome. page-performance

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-20 Thread johny why
thanks ricardo. you definitely understand specificity. your links confirm: "A style that is designated as important will win out over contradictory styles of otherwise equal weight." and, if styles of equal weight both use !important, "the last rule specified wins." http://www.htmlhelp.com/refer

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-19 Thread johny why
wileyluxe wrote: > Depending on how the rest of the selectors are written, a Body ID will > do overwrite it. wileyluxe, can you give an example of how a site-css Body ID can overwrite the widget-css, if the widget employs !important + id's/ classes?

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-19 Thread johny why
ryan.joyce wrote: > unless you've declared some of your default styles as !important, > the widget *will* take precedence if it's called after the default > CSS. --if you mean the widget styles will affect the main site rendering, not if the widget styles are correctly declared with unique id's o

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-19 Thread johny why
i don't see it as a problem. With or without !important, the site-css will cascade into the widget for elements undeclared in the widget-- the widget designer expects that. The important thing is for the widget's declared styles to take precedence, which !important achieves in most cases. (if i'm

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-18 Thread johny why
ricardo, you're right that styles undeclared in the widget-css will cascade from the site-css into the widget, even if you use !important in the widget. that's an important point.

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-18 Thread johny why
ricardo: "what does this have to do with jQuery?" --this topic is on the jquery forum, because problems with a jQuery component, Superfish, caused me to devise this method. The superfish support page directed me to this forum for support. the author of the plugin has not spoken up yet. (I

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-18 Thread johny why
Amen to that, JIMD. !important easily eliminates spaghetti problems, with 3rd-party components. (Although, i would counter that CSS applied judiciously, ESPECIALLY to very large sites, can vastly reduce the effort to apply global formats site-wide. But some CSS-fanatics say "never, ever use inline

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
ricardo, no offense-- the only part of this thread you need to worry about is the first post: to insulate your 3rd-party candy (such as a suckerfish menu) from your site's css, globally replace: ";" with " !important;" in the candy's css. that's it. the rest of this thread is geeks debating hy

[jQuery] Re: Superfish error... the menu can only got 3 layers in

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
i think your problem is your html, not superfish. your html may be badly formed. my html editor pointed out some errors: My Pools Football Hockey NHL Playoff Bracket playoff09 myplayoff Straight Pickem NHL09

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
hi Ricardo i think you're not understanding the nature of css conflicts (has nothing to do with "badly" written code), or you're not understanding how super-simple this technique is (no "fuss", it's a simple 2-second tweak), or i'm not understanding you (are you just trying to be cute?)

[jQuery] Re: Superfish error... the menu can only got 3 layers in

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
i was having superfish problems too. i resolved them with the ! important method. might be your solution. http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/fda8d8c533d6ae09

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
Nightmares! You made a good point, I should have replied to you personally! PS. Please don't take it personal. That was (kinda) a joke. I guess we are in a better mood here and all of my friends that I MADE TO look through the the thread said 'Good one' : PSS. Nothing

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
jQuery Lover, i'm a programmer. i'm a perfectionist when it comes to wording. Unfortunately, google groups does not provide a draft feature, OR preview feature, OR edit-after-posting feature, which i find galling and irritating. i'll try to get my wording right before posting. secondly, the idea

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
jquery Lover, let go of what? this technique? this thread? or my repeatedly removing and reposting the same post, because you get an email alert every time? On Jan 17, 11:10 am, jQuery Lover wrote: > OFFTOP: > > Johny, just let it go already... :))) > > > Read jQu

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
right, Klaus, specificity resolves conflicts. if your main site css uses !important on any element which conflicts with your candy css, it MIGHT resolve in favor of the site's css-- causing your candy to display wrong! fortunately, !important seems to be used rarely, so such a conflict is unlike

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
right, Klaus, specificity resolves conflicts. if your main site css uses !important on any element which conflicts with your candy css, that would create a conflict in your candy, which MIGHT resolve in favor of the site's css-- causing your candy to display wrong! fortunately, !important seems

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
right, Klaus, specificity resolves conflicts. if your main site css uses !important on any element which conflicts with your candy css, that could create a conflict in your candy, which would resolve in favor of the site's css-- causing your candy to display wrong! (even though you used !importan

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
right, Klaus, specificity resolves conflicts. if your main site css uses !important on any element which conflicts with your candy css, that could create a conflict in your candy, which would resolve in favor of the site's css-- causing your candy to display wrong! (even though you used !importan

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
right, Klaus, specificity resolves conflicts. which could be an issue, if your main site css uses !important on any element which conflicts with your candy css. fortunately, !important seems to be used rarely, so that's probably not going to be an issue. if, by rare chance, your site's css has a

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
if your 3rd-party css does not use unique id's or classes, then you could create your own (which will enable you to use !important): 1. locate the html for the candy, in your site's html pages. 2. surround it with a div with an id that does not appear anyplace in the rest of your site: ... 3. o

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
if your 3rd-party css does not use unique id's or classes, then you could create your own (which will enable you to use !important): 1. locate the html for the candy, in your site's html pages. 2. surround it with a div with an id that does not appear anyplace in the rest of your site: ... 3. o

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-17 Thread johny why
yes, uwe, as i mentioned, if your 3rd-party css does not use unique id's or classes, then 'important' in the 3rd-party css could affect your main site-rendering. but in most cases, 3rd-party candy DOES use unique classes or id's, in which case there's no problem.

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-16 Thread johny why
"this could also override any other third party CSS" --i don't think so, Nic, as you apply the "important" property to the 3rd-party css, not your site's css. however, if the 3rd-party css does not use unique class or id names, to target JUST their candy, then applying the 'important' property t

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-16 Thread johny why
nic, i don't understand what you mean by "modify your CSS to not even use this on your properties"

[jQuery] Re: Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-16 Thread johny why
IMPORTANT: make the above change to the 3rd-party candy css, NOT the css of your website

[jQuery] Solution To Many Of Your CSS Nightmares!

2009-01-16 Thread johny why
trying to integrate a 3rd party css candy into your site may result in conflicts between the candy's css and your site's css, resulting in a rendering mess. stuff that works beautifully by itself blows up when you put it into your website. this trick may not find you a new girlfriend, or butter yo

[jQuery] Re: Superfish Bug - Submenu Opens In IE 8 On Page Load (Joel Birch)

2009-01-12 Thread johny why
this is in vertical mode

[jQuery] Re: Superfish Bug - Submenu Opens In IE 8 On Page Load (Joel Birch)

2009-01-12 Thread johny why
resolved, by reverting to the version of hoverIntent.js which is bundled with Superfish. Joel Birch, author of superfish, recommends upgrading to the version below, but the script below caused the incorrect behavior i describe at the top of this thread. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/hover

[jQuery] Superfish Bug - Submenu Opens In IE 8 On Page Load (Joel Birch)

2009-01-12 Thread johny why
in IE 8, as soon as i load the page, the superfish top-most submenu opens, without hover. i do not see this problem in firefox or chrome. help?

[jQuery] Re: How to solve this

2008-11-06 Thread Johny
Thank you Jeffrey for your reply Best regards, Lad.

[jQuery] Re: How to solve this

2008-11-05 Thread Johny
Nobody knows the answer to my question ? :-(

[jQuery] Re: How to solve this

2008-11-05 Thread Johny
Thank you ALL who helped.Now it works but because the form uploads a large file I would like to add a progress bar indicator or something like. Is it possible to implement a progress uploading indicator with jQuery? I thought about an animated picture( as the easiest solution) but when I start

[jQuery] How to solve this

2008-11-04 Thread Johny
I have a form The form uploads a large file so that I would like to inform a user to wait, after he pushes the submit button. So I have ... ... $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]').click(function() { $('#InformUserText').show(); return false; });

[jQuery] Is this possible with jQuery?

2008-02-16 Thread Johny
Hi, I have a website with some images.The size of these pictures are ok for the most of users but some of users, who use higher screen resolution, complain about the poor quality picture details. Would it be possible to use jQuery to enlarge pictures depending on users screen resolution? Or what

[jQuery] Jsquery homesite changed?

2008-01-18 Thread Johny
I fail to open http://www.jsquery.org/. Is there a new home site? Thanks L.

[jQuery] Re: How to count characters

2007-10-23 Thread Johny
Thank you all for help. One more question: For example if I have 1000 Is it possible to get the value ( here 1000) ? I tried $('#MyNumber').val(); but it did not work. Thank you for help

[jQuery] How to count characters

2007-10-22 Thread Johny
I have how can I count numbers of characters that a user writes? Thank you B.

[jQuery] How to count characters

2007-10-22 Thread Johny
Hi, I have how can I count numbers of characters that a user writes? Thank you B.

[jQuery] Bookmark with jQuery

2007-10-13 Thread Johny
Did anyone successed in making a script that can bookmark a webpage? The script I used worked with IE but I would like the script to work with Firefox and Opera too. Do you have any idea how to do that with jQuery? Thanks L.

[jQuery] How to get the value of radio button

2007-10-09 Thread Johny
For example I have a group of radio buttons and would like to get value of the selected radio button. IHow to get the value using jQuery? Thanks for reply L.

[jQuery] Can jQuery help?

2007-10-02 Thread Johny
Hi, I have style defined like this div#Explanation{position:absolute; top:720px; width:10px; right: 0px;margin:40px 0 0 0;} and my HTML code * Login Popis * Password and I would like to add Explanation style to my using jQuery. Is that possible? Thanks

[jQuery] Is this possible with jQuery?

2007-10-02 Thread Johny
Hi, I have style defined like this div#Explanation{position:absolute; top:720px; width:10px; right: 0px;margin:40px 0 0 0;} and my HTML code * Login Popis * Password and I would like to add Explanation style to my using jQuery. Is that possible? Thanks

[jQuery] Newbie question

2007-10-02 Thread Johny
Hi, I have style defined like this div#Explanation{position:absolute; top:720px; width:10px; right: 0px;margin:40px 0 0 0;} and my HTML code * Login Popis * Password and I would like to add Explanation style to my using jQuery. Is that possible? Thanks

[jQuery] How to check input field

2007-08-08 Thread Johny
In a form there is an input field where users insert their email address. How can I check if it is the valid email or that it consists `@' . Thank you for help L.

[jQuery] Editor in jQuery ?

2007-06-29 Thread Johny
Is there a rich text editor that I can insert into my blog application? Thanks for replies. L

[jQuery] Uploaded file progress status

2007-06-23 Thread Johny
Can anyone suggest a solution how to use jQuery for a script that will show ,during uploading file, information how many bytes have already been uploaded? I know about uploading progress bar scripts but such programs are rather difficult to be understood properly for me. All that I need is gi

[jQuery] jqUploader

2007-06-23 Thread Johny
Does anyone use jqUploader? I use server side script for uploading in Python.It works well but I would like to add a progress bar during uploading. Is jqUploader the right choice? Or is there an easier way how to add progress during uploading? Thank you L

[jQuery] Is there documentation available?

2007-06-14 Thread Johny
Is there documentation about jQuery ( API jQuery) available in other formats besides HTML? L.