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Monday, December 4, 2006 daily archive

Feed Tester

Ignore this post.. [Edit] Note to WP 2.0.5 users: Everything was working fine on this site before upgrading to WP 2.0.5. After upgrading, apparently, our feeds stopped validating* and the BDP RSS Aggregator plugin refused to update our own feeds. After several hours investigating the situation, we determined that the Live Comment Preview plugin was interfering with our feeds validating, while the upgraded WordPress (2.0.5) was responsible for problems with the BDP plugin. Here is a copy [...] • Read more »

Auto-Focus Form Elements with JavaScript

After digging through the WordPress source code, I stumbled upon this very useful JavaScript method for auto-focusing form elements upon page load. Here is the JavaScript code (place within the document head): <script type=”text/javascript”> function formfocus() { document.getElementById(‘element’).focus(); } window.onload = formfocus; </script> …and corresponding (X)HTML markup (abbreviated for clarity): <form> <input id=”element” /> <input /> <input /> </form> In this example, the first form element (identified by id=”element”) will be automatically focused when the document loads, [...] • Read more »