If you haven’t worked with JavaScript in over a decade, you might be surprised at the advances that have been made in this language. At one time, JavaScript was used mainly for swapping “one image for another in response to user-generated mouse events” [1], and now, it is a full-fledged language used for both front end and back end work. ...

Data is an integral part of an application. There is a golden rule for developers. Never trust your user’s information. So, we need to always filter and validate the user entered before storing it in application’s database. In this article, we will learn how to perform basic validation of form in php. We will create a simple registration form which ...

“Document ready” is a technique widely used by everyone who uses JavaScript or jQuery in their code, yet only a few people know exactly why it is used. Primarily, it is used to make sure that all your external scripts are loaded properly. Other reasons to use it are for having unobtrusive JavaScript and separation of concerns. Another perk is ...

Every web developer working with the web accessibility (WAI ARIA) knows or heard about aria-live. This is an attribute, which indicates a live region – any updatable HTML element – and describes the types of updates the user agents, assistive technologies (screen readers), and user can expect from the live region. The default value of the aria-live is off. That means, updates to ...

This is a huge lifesaver and I don’t know how I couldn’t come up with this before. Check out this post to learn how you can enable spell checking when writing Markdown documents with sublime. Since I switched to Jekyll and GitHub Pages I’m writing all of my blogs posts in Markdown. Best thing I could do! Being a developer, ...

This is the first post of a series of 3, presenting AngularJS UI-Router library: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Components AngularJS UI-Router – Example Introduction AngularJS is a well-known Javascript framework nowadays. It provides a great support to create SPA (Single Page Applications), easing some of the tedious stuff needed when writing client-side Javascript applications (boilerplate code, DOM bindings, URL ...

Usability, an important part of web interface eases the way we communicate with web. Many new technologies and functionalities are invented to ease the development effort as well as improve the overall way in which users interact with web. HTML5 has given many things as of today to improve the browser functionalities on client side with minimum amount of scripting. It provides ...

By now everyone who has used a search engine has experienced auto-complete functionality at work. Originally intended to help those with physical limitations reduce the need for keyboard input, it has become commonplace on nearly every input element across a variety of software. In this article we will look at the details of the JQuery Autocomplete widget; how to implement ...

We hear a lot about loops, especially for loops. So what, in fact, are they? They’re just pieces of code that repeat the same commands several times, until you reach a desired conclusion, without getting you bored out of your mind, repeating your code. This is how we JavaScript guys do it. Syntax You will definitely have to know the ...