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    Better Pull Quotes with the Dojo Toolkit

    Chris Coyier authored a post titled Better Pull Quotes: Don't Repeat Markup a while back. In his post he created great-looking pull quotes without repeating any content -- instead he uses jQuery to dynamically create the pull quotes. A few months back...

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    Browser-Specific Styles with the Dojo Toolkit

    Every JavaScript library aims to cure the pain of dealing with cross-browsers JavaScript issues. The Dojo Toolkit takes that a step further by trying to help you deal with cross-browser CSS issues. Dojo features a file called "uacss.js" which adds CSS classes to the...

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    Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript

    I'm what you would consider a bit of a GitHub fanboy. We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code, but I think my love of GitHub goes beyond that. GitHub seems to understand that most...

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    Create Twitter-Style Buttons with the Dojo Toolkit

    I love that JavaScript toolkits make enhancing web pages incredibly easy. Today I'll cover an effect that I've already coded with MooTools: creating a Twitter-style animated "Sign In" button. Check out this five minute tutorial so you can take your static...

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    Use Custom Missing Image Graphics Using Dojo

    A few months back I posted an article about how you can use your own "missing image" graphics when an image fails to load using MooTools and jQuery. Here's how to do the same using Dojo. The HTML We'll delegate the image to display by class...

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    Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using Dojo

    I'm a huge fan of WordPress' method of individual article deletion. You click the delete link, the menu item animates red, and the item disappears. Here's how to achieve that functionality with Dojo JavaScript. The PHP - Content & Header The following snippet goes at the...

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    Spyjax: Ajax For Evil Using Dojo

    The idea of Spyjax is nothing new. In pasts posts I've covered how you can spy on your user's history with both MooTools and jQuery. Today we'll cover how to check user history using the Dojo Toolkit. The HTML For the sake of this...

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    Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using Dojo

    The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below: Here's how to accomplish this same effect using Dojo. The XHTML The above HTML was taken directly from the jQuery homepage -- no changes. The CSS The above CSS has been slightly modified to match the CSS rules already...

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    Scrolling “Go To Top” Link Using Dojo

    One of the most popular code snippets of posted on my blog has been the scrolling "Go To Top" link snippet. The premise of the snippet is simple: once the user scrolls an element (usually the BODY element) past a given threshold, a "Go...

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    Accomplishing Common Tasks Using MooTools, jQuery, and Dojo

    I've been dabbling with Dojo quite a bit lately. I feel great about my MooTools and jQuery skills but I'm a bit still raw when it comes to Dojo. What's important that I keep in mind, however, is that the tasks I'm trying to...