So what exactly is jQuery? jQuery is a concise JavaScript library. The developers state that jQuery aims to change the way we write JavaScript. I like to think of jQuery as a tool that allows us to simplify JavaScript code. This “Getting Started Guide” is intended as a quick introduction to […]

The ability to set and read cookies is a very useful feature of many programming languages. Fortunately, JavaScript has this functionality. Klaus Hartl released a cookie plugin last year for jQuery. What I particularly like about this plugin is the simple syntax - synonymous with jQuery. Traditionally, one would create […]

Ever wondered how to allow visitors to increase or decrease the text size (font size) on your website? I’m going to show you how - using jQuery (a great JavaScript library).

CSS Font Size
Firstly, we should consider the various methods of specifying a font size using CSS. 4 CSS attributes pertaining to font sizing come […]

FireFox displays an ugly dotted border around links (all linked elements in fact):

You can easily prevent FireFox from displaying this border by adding the following CSS style sheet, or within the <style> tags on your page:

a:active { outline: none; }
a:focus { -moz-outline-style: none; }

This should not prevent your CSS from validating according to W3C’s standards.