outerHTML is a property that is provided by Internet Explorer that returns the full HTML of an element (including start and end tags). In jQuery, the html() function returns the innerHTML of an element, which is just the HTML inside the element (not including the start and end tags).
One thing that has always been annoying about programming JavaScript in an ASP.NET Web Forms environment is that the ID attribute of HTML controls rendered out from ASP controls is unpredictable.
Read more →Note that this code has been updated. I have an updated blog post detailing what changed. The new source code is available at https://github.com/bgrins/javascript-astar, and the code as of the original post is still available here: https://github.com/bgrins/javascript-astar/tree/0.0.1/original-implementation
Read more →I recently had to access a web API through C Sharp that required a file upload. This is pretty easy if you have an HTML page with a form tag and you want a user to directly upload the file.
Read more →I have always enjoyed using the logical OR operator in JavaScript (||) as an oppurtunity to check for a null-like value, specifically to provide default parameters for functions or to check for existence of a property on a collection. I think they are a great way to make code more concise, and if used well, more readable.