Month: February 2010

How to apply width to IE and not Firefox
Well the solution is simple. All you need is the knowledge of some keyword that IE recognises while setting the property value, while Mozilla ignores it. Few solutions: 1. Using Expressions: div#maincontainer{ width:300px; /* IE and mozilla will take the width as 300px */ width:expression('100%'); /* But now mozilla will ignore this statement, but IE ...

__doPostBack and Object expected error
The best way to understand the working of the __doPostBack function is to dissect the function into small pieces and explore each piece one at a time. Let us take a look at the function. <input type="hidden" name="__EVENTTARGET" id="__EVENTTARGET" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="__EVENTARGUMENT" id="__EVENTARGUMENT" value="" /> function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) { if (!theForm.onsubmit || (theForm.onsubmit() ...

jQuery : To check if an element is present in the page or not
This is a precautionary measure that you can adopt, if you are doubtful about the presence of a particular control in the page. Under normal scenarios, in case if the element is not there, it would throw an error. But you can now check if that particular element is present in the page or not, ...

jQuery Intellisense for VS 2008
Found this weblog from ScottGuru very useful. You can now add intellisense to the jquery code that you write in your web Application. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/21/jquery-intellisense-in-vs-2008.aspx Enjoy jQuery to its full!