Alex’s Rocket

I decided to use jQuery UI Datepicker control for one of project and faced with the some strange behavior. At first, I decided to find a way to select month and year quickly because switching months with previous button will unhappy every user. So I’ve added the following options:

$(‘#datepicker’).datepicker({
    changeMonth: true,
    changeYear: true
});

Well [...]

As you may notice using target=”_blank” breaks XHTML 1.0 Stric validation. And here you are a solution with jQuery:

Add rel=”external” for links that you want to be opened in a new window
Include the following jQuery script:

$(function() {
  $("a[rel*='external']").click(function() {
    window.open($(this).attr(‘href’), ‘external’, ”);
  });
});

But I agree that it’s annoying when link is opening in new [...]

Usually we have ‘Add more’ link on the forms. For example, on the project I’m working on right now there is registration form and user with Advanced package can create a few accounts. So we have ‘Add more’ link that should add one more row with Name, Email and Password for adding another account. Because [...]

I faced with a problem focusing element in thickbox popup. I open login form using thickbox and want to take a focus on the first element of the form. Though the following code does look to be working:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("input[name='username']").focus();
});

But there is a little trick. If you make a small 100ms delay in focus() [...]