Because when an overflowed DOM element is first created, it always starts scrolling from the top.However, you can scroll down an overflowed DOM element such as a Div by setting the scrollTopThe follow sample is written in jQuery$("#bigDiv").s… more »

This is an idea that I had just thought about for my website revamp and quickly coded up a simple proof of concept. I wanted to simulate a lighting up of room effect via javascript. Yes it could easily be done in Flash but everything seems to be movin… more »

When a select box requires on the fly validation, HTML and JavaScript doesn't quite support any way of reverting to a previous choice if the validation fails. You cant trigger an onchange event without first updating the select box to a different value.… more »

Firefox got me the other day with this one when I was trying to manually scroll the contents of an iframe because I was trying to achieve a bouncing effect when scrolling between different sections. And for some reason, Firefox would often mysteriously s… more »

These days alot of javascript libraries are released in packed format which is pretty much javascript compressed with Dean Edwards' packer. It seems this trend combined with automated packing ends up with broken libraries. One of the errors I troubleshoo… more »