Why is JQuery AJAX Sending a GET Instead of a POST?

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by David Bauernschmidt Sunday, 21 April 2013 12:00

If I take the same amount of time writing this article as I did finding the problem, then this article would probably be 50,000 words long.  However; I also know that articles are supposed to help individuals quickly solve problems and be enjoyable to read therefore; I had to adjust accordingly.  I found this solution after hours on the internet trying to solve a problem that was created when I upgraded the jquery library from 1.6.1 to 1.8.3.  I cannot prove (yet) that Jquery ultimately caused this problem but I can say that when I use any development tool at my disposal I see something quite interesting.  Let’s play a game of what’s different.  Look at following two sets of code and tell me what is different between them.  There is a lot of other code but this is what is important.

How to Retrieve the ID of the Current Category in Clip-Bucket v2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:08 Written by Richi González Wednesday, 17 April 2013 12:00

Hello,

As I’ve been asked two times already how to get the ID of the current category being browsed in Clip-Bucket v2, I decided to write an article for it so everyone can learn how do it by themselves. Knowing how to do this, you can display specific advertisement for each category, for example.

Unable to Get Value of the Property nodeType While Using Knockout

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 07:10 Written by David Bauernschmidt Wednesday, 13 March 2013 12:00

When I started using knockout.js in my applications I became excited to see the many uses of this library.  It took me a little bit of time to realize how to implement it.  One reason it took me a while was when I came across this error.

Unable to get value of the property nodeType

How to Get the Value of an Element’s Attribute with jQuery using attr()

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 08:35 Written by Richi González Wednesday, 13 February 2013 12:00

Hello,

Lately that I’ve been working a lot with jQuery, I have noticed how easy and small functions get endless possibilities for improving code. In this article, you will learn how to get the value of any attribute of an element with jQuery using attr()

We will imagine we have the following HTML code:

How to Get a String’s Length with Javascript

Last Updated on Friday, 8 February 2013 04:29 Written by Richi González Sunday, 10 February 2013 12:00

Hello,

Learn how to get a string’s length with a very simple Javascript property: length. This is really useful when you want to do, for example, field validations with JS; you evaluate the length and then do something.