It’s often useful to be able to detect scroll events using the onscroll event handler in JavaScript. For example, every time a user scrolls to nearly the bottom of the page, you load more content to create an ‘endless’ page. In my case, I have two DIVs set to overflow: auto, with chat [...]
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Disappearing text cursor in Firefox
Do you ever find that sometimes when you try and type into a textbox, there is no cursor there, but it still accepts your input and the text appears as if there is a cursor? I came across this problem in Firefox 3 and searching online revealed only solutions to an earlier problem that [...]
Auto growing textareas
This feels like a topic that’s been explored to death already, but I really don’t like most implementations of this technique, so here’s how we do it.
First, in case anyone has just arrived from Mars, or even more unlikely, isn’t familiar with Facebook, the auto-growing textarea is a text box that gets bigger as you [...]