When developing a new site I always like to make sure I use the latest release of my javascript library hosted by Google. Then I just update it to a local version before the site goes live.

Today I came across a great little site that lets you get the links to the latest versions of the most popular javascript libraries quickly and easily.

I wanted to make a quick bit of javascript that would enable or disable a text input based on whether a checkbox was checked or not. I thought this might come in handy so I made it into a tutorial and posted it here. This script will work for any amount of checkboxes and text inputs on a page. You can see a working demo of it here.

A lot of developers have found that users can sometimes click links without thinking, this is not normally too harmful unless the button does something like delete a record from a database. That is why a lot of sites use confirmation boxes that will ask a user “Do you really want to delete this?” before the action is completed.

This tutorial will show you how to create a javascript function that will allow you to do this really easily.

Here’s an example of what we will be creating:

As a developer, there will inevitably be a time when you have to use a WYSIWYG editor in one of your projects. There are a huge range of these editors that all have good and bad bits and that all have different price ranges. In this roundup, I’ve decided to only include the ones that cost my favourite price, FREE!!