Archive for the ‘Javascript’ Category

Hover for non-anchor elements in IE6

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

The :hover pseudo-class adds a special style to an element when you mouse over it.

The ':hover' pseudo-class works fine in IE7, FF, Safari and Opera for all the elements. But for obvious reasons IE6 fails to recognize the ':hover' pseudo-class for all elements other than the anchor(<a></a>).

The ':hover' pseudo-class can be made to work in IE6 with the help of the jQuery method 'hover()'.

Lets see how it is done.

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safeMail : Anti-Spam Email with Unobtrusive Javascript

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

If you've included your email address in your site then you'd definitely get junk mail that clogs your inbox. The Spam Bots and Spam Crawlers crawl through the web pages constantly and add all the email address they encounter to their lists.

I wanted a perfect solution to keep the Spam Bots away from my email address. I came across several solutions based on Javascript. But none of them was generalized, almost all of them I encountered used Javascript to insert the email address and each address needed to be coded individually. You can find a similar solution from Joe Maller
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