So – how do one make a simple rotations function in jquery? There are many ways to do this, so I will just demonstrate one of them here:

Example code for the jQuery DIV rotator:

<div class="">
<div class="focusitem active">Item 1</div>
<div class="focusitem notactive">Item 2</div>
<div

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The jQuery UI sortable widget offers a great interface for listing and moving element around.

I have been working on a small project of mine and figured that the sortable widget could be a great feature. I then started to output the list and the element that should be…

With jQuery it is quick and easy to access and modify elements in a select dropdown box. There are of course several ways of doing thing and I will try to cover most of them here.

Quicklinks:
The test setup
Get the selected value from the select /…

When working with HTML Forms, it can in some situations improve the usability of the site, if the content of elements can change and reflect the options, that the visitor made in the previous fields.

The most common form element are input, checkbox, radio buttons, textarea and dropdown boxes and…

If you want to reuse your jQuery code, it can be a good idea to make the code into a jQuery Plugin. This makes it easier to use on different elements or even to distribute it.

Demonstration:
I have made a small simple 1 level menu for this demonstration. If…

I’ve been experimenting with some iframe-manipulation with jQuery, but this was not as easy as I have hoped for. There is not much help on jquery.com and a Google search just found others with the same kind of problem.

My setup is very basic. An iframe loading a page like…