This post will show you how to write a basic Greasemonkey script that will add two more menu items to Facebook’s friends top menu as shown below. These 2 menu items are : “Recently Updated” – show all your friends with recent updates “Status Updates” – show the latest status updates of your friends About Greasemonkey Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension […]
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Expanding/collapsing javascript menu
In this post I’ll show you how to create an expanding/collapsing menu like Slashdot left menu used to be, using the YUI library and Dav GlassYUI effects widget. The HTML markup for our menu is : <div id=”menu”> <h1 id=”menu-title”>Menu</h1> <div id=”menu-links”> <ul> <li>Home</li> <li>About</li> <li>CSS</li> </ul> </div> </div> We use 2 div tags, one for holding the menu itself and the […]
YUI-based numeric stepper widget
Since I had some problems with YUI slider, I decided to write a YUI-based numeric stepper that allows users to select values within a predefined range. To instantiate the widget include the following files : <!– CSS –> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”stepper/stepper.css” /> <!– Dependencies –> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js”></script> <!– Stepper source file –> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”stepper/stepper-min.js”></script> Then […]
Simple YUI Cookie example – javascript text magnifier for your page
Since YUI 2.5.0 there’s the Cookie utility and at this time of posting, it’s still in beta version. I’ll show you how we can use this simple utility to write a small javascript app. The piece of code we will be writing, using the YUI library (my favorite), will allow users to increase/decrease their font size for a block […]