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The Aha moment with Uniform.js – or was it just a school boy/girl error?

November 28, 2013

So picture this – a designer has in his wisdom decided that all the normal input fields on an HTML form need to replaced with whizzy coloured dropdowns & radio button (sigh)
I have used Uniform.js previously – a lovely free plugin that allows you to customise these things – so I went along to the site & downloaded the latest zip.

But could I get it to work? Nope.

The debug console kept saying ” $(…).uniform is not a function”

What the? Yes I checked that all the files had been uploaded and could be found on the server. Checked my file paths and everything. Went back to the site & redownloaded it to see if I missed a vital file. Still no joy.

Exasperated, I called it a night.

With fresh eyes this morning it becomes blatantly apparent that I am loading jQuery twice!
Once in the header & once in the footer – facepalm!

So I removed the one in the footer and lo – it works beautfully.

Moral of the story – don’t code late at night kids (and always check how many times you’re loading jQuery!)

Why Internet Explorer has given me grey hairs

July 17, 2012

Picture this: its the night before website lauch and all around is quiet except me frantically tearing my (now greying) hair out trying to figure out why a jQuery slide down menu doesn’t work in IE8 when it worked in *every* other browser known to man.

After a long hour of trying to figure it out it turns out it was beacuse I has left an empty callback function within my slideToggle function. Who’d have guessed it?

So for future reference: IE8 doesn’t like

$j('#socialnav div.loginBox').slideToggle('fast', function() {});

But it does like

$j(‘#socialnav div.loginBox’).slideToggle(‘fast’);

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