using the right technology at the right time
My posting this is a seriously delayed reaction. But I must admit that I was using Wheels as a hammer and trying to treat a problem like a nail when I wrote about creating a Wheels partial for setting form focus.
Read on to see where I went wrong.
You’ve seen it before: you get to a login screen, and the cursor automatically jumps to the username box so you can just start typing. It’s very convenient.
But developers seem to screw this up regularly. I’ve seen it implemented so poorly that it becomes highly unusable and opens potential security problems.
I’ll take some time to show you how I implemented this in jQuery and then encapsulated it for reuse within a partial in ColdFusion on Wheels.
Finally forcing myself to learn a much-needed skill, I took a dive into learning jQuery. I used jQuery to improve some JavaScript code that I had written a couple months ago.
Read on to see the original code and how much cleaner jQuery made it.
About MeI'm Chris Peters, and I'm a lover of web design and development. I'm based in Columbus, Ohio. Follow me as I have successes and struggles in this fast-moving technology environment.
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