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I’m working on an application which stores a lot of data in the application scope. Part of the data stored is a config CFC that has a method which loads ‘external assets’ (javascript and css files etc) into the <head> of the html document via <cfhtmlhead>. I love that tag
My part in this [...]
So ok, I’ve run into this problem in the past where I’m using an onclick event to submit a form from a button control. When you click the button you get a nice little Javascript error stating:
“this.form.submit is not a function”
Bugger…wtf?
This only seems to happen when you have a form element named “submit” already on [...]
Javascript is pretty cool and I’ll admit that I don’t get to do as much as I’d like with it. Today I’m going to briefly cover a few properties of any Javascript function which you can take advantage of:
arguments
callee
arity
arguments
The arguments property contains an array of input parameters which may be passed to the function. It [...]
I ran into a little quirk or ‘bug’ today when using parseInt() with a string (input from a text box). Now as we all know parseInt() parses a string and returns an integer value.
The scenario: I was working on a legacy application where a user could pass a date to the server in 3 separate [...]
Ben Nadel has a nice post on trimming strings with javascript using regular expressions.
Note that the reg exp white space character ‘\s’ is used to match:
space
tab
horizontal tab
vertical tab
line break
Sample code below:
// Trims the beginning and trailing white space from a string.
function trim( strText ){
return( strText.replace(new RegExp(”^([s]+)|([s]+)$”, “gm”), “”) );
}
// Trims the beinning white space from [...]