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A Sitecore & SharePoint Consultant with over 11 years of extensive technical experience in UI/UX Designing, Requirements Analysis, Designing, Developing, Testing, Deployment, Infrastructure Setup for web/enterprise-based applications using Microsoft Technologies (SharePoint, Sitecore & .NET) across all phases of SDLC

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Page refresh leading to larger font size when using popups

Well this was one error i faced during on of my development projects. I have a button click firing a ShowModalDialog window. On close of that window, i want the parent to refresh. But the problem was that, when i close the dialog box or popup, the parent page finishes its loading and shows up ...

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Learn jQuery: A simple ‘Hello World’ jQuery Code

jQuery - A powerful javascript library capable of doing all your complex javascript actions and functionality in a line or two. How cool is that. Pre-requisites : Notepad, jquery.js file(You can get it here),  some coding background and an open mind Let's Start with a simple Hello World: Open your notepad, create a html file ...

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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 ...

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__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() ...

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ASP .Net Menu using ordered list – ul, li concept

I give a different approach to menu creation, in my ASP .Net project. The main wins being the performance and ease of use. Asp menu is pretty messy when you look at the code behind and the page size it adds. But use this concept only if performance is a critical factor. Concept: •    Use ...

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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, ...

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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!

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How to enable developer toolbar in Safari

To enable the Web Inspector (Safari equivalent for IE Developer Toolbar) and User Agents etc., just follow the screen shots below: Voila! I hope it helped.

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How to determine whether Javascript is enabled?

There are a lot of approaches to this. Lets take them one at a time: Using NOSCRIPT tag: You can write a noscript tag just before your script tag to display the user a warning message. Check the code below, wherein the user will be redirected to another page if javascript is disabled: <html> <head> ...

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Javascript to check any redirection to another page

When the user had made some changes in the page and accidentally clicks some links on the page, you might want to warn the user about the redirection and ask his permission for the operation. Javascript makes it quite simple to do this operation, with the help of window.onbeforeunload(): window.onbeforeunload = checkRedirection; function checkRedirection (evt) ...