JavaScript

I wanted to be able to format numbers to include commas every 3 numbers and then fix them to a certain number of decimals. There are a few different format functions out there and also JQuery plugins, but couldn't seem to find one that did exactly what I wanted, so ended up writing my own.

Here's the code for anyone else looking for something that will format numbers to include commas using JQuery:-

Code:

(function ($) {
    $.fn.formatNumber = function (seperator, every,

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1) Introduction

This is part of a series of blogs. The others are:-
2) A simple .asmx file and calling a function
3) Converting a .asmx file to WCF .svc file

I had some time on my hands recently and for one reason or another starting looking into web services and WCF. It was about a week ago and I can’t remember the exact reason why I started, but I thought I’d detail the pitfalls, hair pulling, shouting and swearing moments into a blog to help ...

I had an issue in Firefox where I wanted a <button> element to fire a Javascript function onclick.

However, I found in Firefox that the button also performed a submit on the form, which I didn't want.

After a little investigation I discovered that the default type for a button element is submit. Apparently a bug in IE prevents it from firing.

So, how to fix?

Add a type="button" property to your <button> element
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