Creating a form with labels inside text fields using jQuery

By Kevan Stannard | Published: January 7, 2011

It’s common to see forms that have a label displayed inside text fields which then disappear when you click into the field. Let’s go through an example for a login form that demonstrates a method for doing this.

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Installing Django with Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 10.04

By Kevan Stannard | Published: December 11, 2010

Step by step instructions for installing Django with Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 10.04.

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Setting up Open Source Flex SDK with debugging on Ubuntu

By Kevan Stannard | Published: September 22, 2010

Step by step instructions for setting up Open Source Flex SDK with debugging on Ubuntu.

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HTML Checked, Disabled and Selected attributes

By Kevan Stannard | Published: July 20, 2010

Checked, Disabled and Selected are common HTML Boolean attributes. So what’s the correct way to specify these (and any other similar Boolean attributes) in your HTML markup?

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Find the position of an element with JavaScript

By Kevan Stannard | Published: May 22, 2010

Quirksmode provides a nice findPos() function to find the absolute position of an element on a page.

If you need to find the position of the element relative to the viewport then you will also need to know the page’s current scroll position, which I found over at Stack Overflow.

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