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Using Google Docs to Create a Survey

After creating the pop-up survey in jQuery, further exploration on creating online polls has turned up Google Docs quick and dirty form creation. Google posted a 2-minute video on Google Docs form creation that pretty much sums it up. This has actually been around for a couple of years now but, even though it’s a [...]

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Pop-up Survey with jQuery UI Dialog

I was tasked with creating a pop-up survey for a project. Fairly simple whether I used the jQuery dialog or not so I added a “Thank you” dialog that displays the survey results with a lightweight, css-based bar chart just for fun. There is also an ASP.NET version of this post. Pop-up Behavior Pop-up survey [...]

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Using jQuery Datepicker and Dialog Box To Select Date Range

This post has been updated and moved to: http://www.jensbits.com/2011/09/06/using-jquery-datepicker-and-dialog-box-to-select-date-range-2/

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Positioning Multiple jQuery UI Dialogs

This post shows one way to position multiple jQuery UI dialogs on the same page. It positions the dialog over the calling button based on the button’s position in the viewport. The dialog box contents can be placed anywhere in the body. For this example they look like this: Not much. Just a little styling [...]

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Printing a Dynamically Loaded Iframe with jQuery

This is an example of printing a dynamically loaded iframe on a button click. This is useful for printing specific or generated reports or pages without leaving the current page. The iframe to be targeted looks like this and can be placed virtually anywhere in the body tag: The button to be clicked for printing: [...]

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