Here is a little code snippet to help you validate a value to ensure it's a YouTube url using JavaScript. This regex here will ensure that the url supplied matches the criteria of a valid youtube url: * This is that it is from www.youtube.com or youtu....
If you're allowing customers to save YouTube videos on your site and you'd like to extract out the video id when storing into your database you could try using either of these options below. The thing to remember is that the YouTube url can be either:...
This morning I wasted about 4 hours on a bug that turned out to be a browser issue rather than a code one. When using Chrome I noticed that my datetime validation in MVC was failing. This validation was working perfectly in Internet Explorer and Firefox. So what was going...
At present there are a lot of Twitter Bootstrap nuget packages. Some of these include sample projects. Some of them are just the basic Bootstrap JavaScript and CSS files. Most of them are not setup to make it easy to write 'Bootstrap' HTML out of the box. I...
On one of my latest management projects I had to test and ensure that the project would work as expected in Internet Explorer. With the exception of a few style issues, which are to be expected when IE testing, I noticed that my DataTables.net code was returning the following...
Recently I had a need for getting the id value of a textbox that was using the jQuery UI AutoComplete plugin. I wanted to pass this id value as a parameter and use it in my Ajax call to my database. To add some extra complexity, my project was using...
I had an issue this weekend while updating some code from WebForms to MVC3 when using the brilliant CKEditor. Many of our forms display 2 submit buttons - one for publishing and one to save as a draft. When using WebForms there was never any issue with this. I'...
If you use asp.net RadioButtons you might have an issue when trying to find out which radio button is selected when it comes to jQuery. There are a lot of examples out there for people who use RadioButtonLists but for most people it might not be practical to display...
I was recently working on our new website for Dragnet Systems when I stumbled onto an issue with submit buttons not working as expected in Internet Explorer when I was using the .live event for jQuery. Everything works as intended in Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome but Internet Explorer was...