Category Archives: CSS
YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work
The DataTable/Grid Component, the ball and chain of GUI components. It doesn’t let you go out and instantiate beers to create a inebriated subclass of yourself with your friends on Friday night. It makes you do household garbage collection during the last minute of your favorite sporting event. And you’d think it would die before [...]
Also posted in JavaScript Tagged DataTable, Grid, YUI
I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
So again, I show up late to the party. IE7 is already out, but my target customers are still using IE6. So today, boys and girls, we’re going to discover the magical world of using I-Frame shims to hide those bleeding heart select boxes from showing through our layered elements. Typically, when creating an I-Frame [...]
Also posted in JavaScript, Web Browsers Tagged Internet Explorer
Google Using YUI Grids CSS
Head over to the Google Homepage. Log In using your Google Account. Make sure you’re at your Personalized Homepage. Take a look at the source CSS file ig.css included on the page. There are a few peculiar lines of code that I recognized from another source, the Yahoo User Interface Grids CSS file. Yahoo has [...]
Problems with YUI DataTable
If you have read anything I’ve written before or know me at all, you know that my go-to JavaScript library is the one and only YUI. So obviously, when I was looking around for a Grid (or as YUI jargon goes, a DataTable), naturally I’m going to turn to YUI compatible components. First, I looked [...]
Also posted in Interface Design, JavaScript, Reviews Tagged DataTable, ExtJS, Grid, YUI
Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less!