It took me some time to get the index of selected value of <select> html control. I tried to use 'attr', but 'prop' should be used for this.

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Tables with at least 20 rows are more readable when its rows look like stripes – even row in one color, odd one in another. Before jQuery we used to add class to each row of table, we made "<tr class="even"> …</tr>" and "<tr class="odd"> …</tr>". Now it’s much easier to do using jQuery. (read more...)

When I wanted to get the ID of clickable element using jQuery, I have found out that I don't remmember such a simple thing. I had to look for it. And I've found it 🙂

I had buttons with class "phonebtnCall" and some IDs. I wanted to know which of buttons was clicked. (read more...)

Sometimes when you work with jQuery,  you want to change css-style of elements. There are two common ways to do it: 1 – to change class of element, 2 – add css attribute (read more...)

This code disables context menu, cutting, copying and dragging text. Sometimes you need it. Just add the code to a page or to .js file and include it to a page.

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When you have a table which you can’t edit, you think you can’t do anything with it. It may be a result of an outside procedure or web-service (usually it returns data in XML, but html-table also can be).

So, for example, we have a list of Borussia Dortmund players. We know id in list, Name of player, his Lastname and date of birth (Figure  1). (read more...)