Archive for February, 2007

Back to the Tooltip

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I love my Tooltip, I really do. There isn’t a project where I haven’t used, abused and made it do unspeakable deeds. In fact, I’m surprised it hasn’t filed a lawsuit against me, for unpaid overtime. But I’ll be the first to admit that the original version was just a little bit flawed.

Ok, maybe not the first to admit it – quite a few of you noticed the strange wrapping bug when used with short strings, and I recieved many requests to have it move with the mouse, fade-in and out, and even support custom shapes.

Well, now it does all that, and more…
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XHTML Definition List Tree

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Seeing as the Neo-Archaic logo is a tree, I just couldn’t resist adding a JavaScript tree component to the GrannySmith blog.

The need for a tree-view arose when I was adding a FAQ page to the Pediatric Center website. I didn’t want a long scrolling page, and it appeared to be a tedious affair to create all those internal links and anchors. A treeview structure seemed ideal for a FAQ, but then I couldn’t find anything usable on google (At this point you might say that my google skills could do with some polishing, and come up with a list of wonderful scripts that I completely overlooked…), and besides, good clean dynamic xhtml is still not that easy to come by.

The result is a Definition List Tree component – That is, a bit of JavaScript code that you can add to your page to create a treeview component out of a humble DL.
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