Monthly Archives: August 2010

Joomla mod_mainmenu: Add separator images between menu items

Posted on August 12, 2010 by imperialWicket

I see a lot of forum posts complaining about Joomla’s built in menu module not being able to support adding images for your separator menu items. The root cause of this is that the menu module uses a span to … Continue reading →

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Button or Input Tag – which to use?

Posted on August 6, 2010 by daleV

Any user interaction with a web page is done with forms. One question about the various elements of a form is whether to use a “button” or an “input” tag; both basically do the same thing, sort of, and that’s … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Reserved Words

Posted on August 4, 2010 by daleV

Variable names in JavaScript can contain letters, numbers, underscores, and the dollar sign. So a stand alone “$” is a legal variable.  You can not start with a number, and names are case-sensitive. This list includes all reserved words, global … Continue reading →

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JavaScript and added Semicolons

Posted on August 3, 2010 by daleV

JavaScript has a feature that causes more problems to programmers than it helps, that is its automatic insertion of semicolons, if you happen to forget one.  Boo. Almost all programming languages today, i.e. C, C++, C#, CSS, PHP, and Java … Continue reading →

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