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JavaScript Cookie Function
If for whatever reason you can’t just use a nice jQuery plugin like js-cookie then the below Javascript will serve as a basic method of setting and getting cookies. Set Cookie Get Cookie
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Getting and Setting URL Parameters with JavaScript
Although there’s probably plenty of good plugins to do this my code for getting and setting URL parameters is below. These take the URL to parse as an argument as I wanted to be able to update parameters in linked URLs as well as the current URL which would be Read more…
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Pre-Populating Social Sharing Messages
Pre-Populating Social Sharing Messages Sharing buttons on a site can be configured to pre-populate content through various sharing channels such as email, Facebook and Twitter, though unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be that well documented. The below examples show how to pre-compose a message to be sent by Outlook.com, Yahoo, Read more…
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Uploading Files to Azure Blob Storage from the Browser
Uploading Files to Azure Blob Storage from the Browser As part of an ongoing project I’ve been trying to upload files from from the browser to an ASP.NET Core MVC site, however there appears to be a hard limit preventing uploading files greater than ~28.6 MiB in size which I Read more…
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JavaScript Week Picker
JavaScript Week Picker One of the new input types in HTML5 is week which allows you to specify a week period. Unfortunately although Chrome brings up a nice datepicker to allow you to select the week Firefox and IE12 and earlier don’t implement this and so just display a standard Read more…
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Serializing JSON Values Without Quotes
Serializing JSON values without quotes I have a package called ChartJSCore which generates the required JavaScript for creating Chart.js charts in a web application. For the most part the JS for this is essentially JSON so this works by serializing chart objects using Newtonsoft which automatically quotes both the object Read more…
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Posting Data to an MVC Controller With jQuery
Posting data to an MVC controller with jQuery The easiest way to post data from a view to a controller action is by adding a form and submit button and letting most of the hard stuff happen automatically. Unfortunately this doesn’t really work in cases where data needs to be Read more…
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Popup Message Box Form
How to display a popup form from a button/link click in a webpage I was trying to figure out how to get a popup form to appear from a button click in a table, with the form making use of data from the row in which the button is clicked. Read more…