Tim Banks » Javascript http://thetimbanks.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:33:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Using jQuery and YQL to get an RSS feed from a site http://thetimbanks.com/2010/08/03/using-jquery-and-yql-to-get-an-rss-feed-from-a-site/ http://thetimbanks.com/2010/08/03/using-jquery-and-yql-to-get-an-rss-feed-from-a-site/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:18:00 +0000 timbanks http://thetimbanks.com/?p=81 I forgot to post a link to this earlier, but I wrote a blog post on using jQuery and YQL to get an RSS feed from a web site. The code uses YQL to grab the content of the external site and then jQuery to find a link tag pointing to the location of the RSS feed. This is similar to how Firefox displays the RSS feed icon in the address bar.

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]]> http://thetimbanks.com/2010/08/03/using-jquery-and-yql-to-get-an-rss-feed-from-a-site/feed/ 0 jQuery Custom Selector for selecting elements by exact text :textEquals http://thetimbanks.com/2009/09/22/jquery-custom-selector-for-selecting-elements-by-exact-text-textequals/ http://thetimbanks.com/2009/09/22/jquery-custom-selector-for-selecting-elements-by-exact-text-textequals/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:52:55 +0000 timbanks http://thetimbanks.com/?p=15 I just finished up writing another short blog post over on my company’s development blog covering a jQuery custom selector I wrote to find elements based on their exact text.  There was a particular case where I needed to select elements in jQuery based on their exact text and not on whether the text contained a certain string.  That ruled out the possibility to use the built in contains() method.

Lanit Development Blog – jQuery Custom Selector for selecting elements by exact text :textEquals

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