As I mentioned before, I wrote an extensible and generic DHTML data grid that uses Javascript and some IE specific features to provide database updates/reads, easy to use canned validation, inline editing and navigation (similar to Excel) and a host of other client-side niceties that make the grid very fast to work with and require few post backs. As RJ is an IE only shop, I didn’t bother to make sure I wasn’t using anything IE specific.

 

I’ve been putting together some stuff for MechaPencil Publishing, and as part of that, I’ve been working out ways to do some of the neat things I did for the IE grid in a browser independent way. As these tricks might be helpful to others, I thought I’d document them. I’ll update this as I continue to solve these problems.

 

Greg’s Javascript Hints and Tips.