November 7th, 2008
I’ve just released a new version of
jScrollPane - my
jQuery plugin for cross-browser customisable scrollbars. It’s been a long time since the plugin has been updated and this release contains a number of significant improvements:
- a jScrollPane now correctly scrolls when you tab to a focusable element within it [example]
- a jScrollPane can now automatically re-initialise itself when images inside it load [example]
- external (and internal) links to an anchor within a jScrollPane now correctly scroll the jScrollPane [example]
- defaults settings are now user-settable [example]
In addition to these changes, jScrollPane now has a
new home on googlecode. This makes it easier for people to keep up to date with the latest version and more importantly it makes it easier for me to track
bug reports and issues with jScrollPane (something that was basically impossible on the
jQuery plugins site). As you can see, there is already a number of issues raised (one of which has high priority) so there may well be a bug fix release soon. In the meantime, it would be good to get people testing the new release and seeing if I broke anything else while implementing these changes…
Update:
jScrollPane 1.2.1 was released very shortly after 1.2 to fix
a fairly serious bug which prevented links within the scroll pane from working correctly. As always, the googlecode site has the latest version.
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December 31st, 2006
I’ve just released my latest plugin for jQuery - my favourite JavaScript library. It is a small (4KB) script which allows you to replace any vertical scrollbars on a div with overflow:auto with your own custom scroll bars. More info, demos and download here.
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May 6th, 2006
I’ve just discovered
jQuery which is an awesome JavaScript library. From the horse’s mouth:
jQuery is a Javascript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing Javascript code should be fun. jQuery acheives this goal by taking common, repetitive, tasks, stripping out all the unnecessary markup, and leaving them short, smart and understandable.
As an example of how succinct and easy code written with jQuery can be I put together a little example that allows you to add a stylesheet switcher to your site.
Check out the example in action.
The stylesheet switcher allows your visitors to choose which stylesheet they would like to view your site with. It uses cookies so that when they return to the site or visit a different page they still get their chosen stylesheet.
The JavaScript code that powers the example looks like this:
/**
* Styleswitch stylesheet switcher built on jQuery
* Under an Attribution, Share Alike License
* By Kelvin Luck ( http://www.kelvinluck.com/ )
*/
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.styleswitch').click(function()
{
switchStylestyle(this.getAttribute("rel"));
return false;
});
var c = readCookie('style');
if (c) switchStylestyle(c);
});
function switchStylestyle(styleName)
{
$('link[@rel*=style][title]').each(function(i)
{
this.disabled = true;
if (this.getAttribute('title') == styleName) this.disabled = false;
});
createCookie('style', styleName, 365);
}
Then all you need to do is to add a class of “styleswitch” to any links that you want to activate the stylesheet switcher and a “rel” attribute which corresponds to the “title” attribute of the link tag embedding the stylesheet you want to switch to. Just view the source of the example and all should become clear…
I’d appreciate any feedback on the effectiveness of this technique. I think it should work fine on any browser that jQuery supports (I’ve tested on IE5.5, IE6 and FF1.5 on XP and Safari on OSX). It should degrade gracefully by going to the href of the link when jQuery isn’t supported or JavaScript is disabled. I have linked to a page which suggests possible ways to deal with this situation (disable JavaScript and try and switch stylesheets on the example to see the page).
If you would like to use this code then please feel free to download the zip
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