Using the Watermark

vbboyd · May 21st, 2011, 07:13 PM

In chapter 11, page 387, I intend to use your watermark Jquery stuff for a restaurant website that I am building for a friend who owns a about five or six rather large seafood restaurants in both Texas and California. He is expanding his business and is opening two new restaurants in San Antonio, Texas and another one in Pismo Beach, California. I would like to use your contact form with the jquery watermark stuff for our customer contact list for our website. I will emmulate/building the form in the book using DreamWeaver with XHMTL and not Visual Studio with ASP.NET. The client insists on it being that way.
I was wondering are there any gotchas that I should be aware of when using the watermark going from tables using asp:controls to XHMTL controls? Also I know this coming question should maybe be on a different string or may not be relevant to the topic at hand for this particular forum. But I just installed IE 9 on my new machine and I can't seem to find view source option in IE 9. Do you know where to go and get that information on view source. I know that this particular question might not be relevant to this discussion but if you would indulge me this time I would be very appreciative.

Imar · May 22nd, 2011, 03:16 AM

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I was wondering are there any gotchas that I should be aware of when using the watermark going from tables using asp:controls to XHMTL controls?

ASP.NET Server controls are a server-side concept. When they reach the browser, they have been transformed into standard XHTML controls. So, from a browser perspective - which is where the watermark plugin runs - it's all the same thing.

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I know that this particular question might not be relevant to this discussion

It's not only about being relevant. It's also about being able to find something. When posting, just keep one simple rule in mind: new thread for a new topic. Imagine I know the answer to your question about IE and post it here. Tomorrow, another visitor comes along with the same question. He searches the forum for "IE missing view source". One of the threads in the search results is this one. What are the chances that visitor is going to click "Using the watermark" to solve his IE problem? Pretty slim if you ask me.

Now, imagine you started a new thread, called "IE 9 View Source Command missing". This subject covers the topic, making it way more likely someone is going to read it later.

A forum is not just about solving your problem, right here, right now. It's also about building up a knowledge base to help future readers find what they are looking for without asking (and answering) the same questions over and over again.

That said, the View Source is available when you right-click a page, or from the Page menu item on the toolbar. If it isn't, I don't know what's going on.

Imar

vbboyd · May 26th, 2011, 12:17 AM

Code:

I have been really getting into the Jquery section of your book. I was wondering how you would make your watermark Jquery code in coordination with the following Jquery code. Your patience, cooperation and understanding in regards to this matter is great appreciated.

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.6.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
	$(document).ready(function(){

$(':submit').click(function () {
   $("#hideme").slideToggle(
function callback() {
  alert('Thank you for your comments we will be in touch shortly!')
});
});


});