Category Archives: jquery

jQuery.hide( ) issue.

I have discovered a small issue in the jQuery hide() and show() methods, doing a $j(#ID_ELEM).hide() will append a  <span style > attribute causing possibly layout changes on the element you are trying to transform.  This is because the jQuery hide() and show() methods “animate the width, height, and opacity of the matched elements simultaneously” so as the height andContinue reading “jQuery.hide( ) issue.”

Integrating jQuery into an existing SEAM project

If you require jQuery in a Java SEAM project (or a web application using JSF or Struts but embedding Richfaces in it), you’ll need to redefine jQuery’s $() shortcut to avoid conflict with prototype.js which is widely used in Richfaces framework Luckily you can use a4j’s loadScript function since as of Richfaces 3.0, jQuery hasContinue reading “Integrating jQuery into an existing SEAM project”