I use Bootstrap 4 as the framework for most sites that I build and I’m mostly happy with how it works, though one area where I think it could be a bit more user friendly is in Form Validation. This works fine for basic validation tasks but doesn’t make it Read more…
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…
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…
I wanted to use Chart.js charts in my ASP.NET Core projects and as there didn’t seem to be anything existing that fit the bill decided to do it myself. Chart Creation There seems to be a few projects around for generating the relevant javascript for Chart.js but all the ones Read more…
Although there’s a date picker present in HTML5 this won’t always work in older browsers and doesn’t look that great anyway so it’s generally better to do this via jQuery. First off add the following script tags to the head section of your page. <script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6/jquery.min.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> Read more…