Put your hands up if you hate developing for Internet explorer….
That would be most of you then.
I can’t stand its special ways of doing things, so when I find an easy work around it makes me happy.
The latest one I have had to find and put into practice is a method for disabling some Select dropdown options in a form. Internet explorer doesn’t support the disabled attribute on option elements. The following code will only work in standards complaint browsers (not in IE 6 or 7):
If you have a string in javascript and you want to the first letter to be uppercase / a capital then this line of code will do that for you:
str = str.slice(0,1).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1);If you want to convert more than one letter then you might want to use the following. As examples if you wanted the first 4 characters uppercase use (0,3) and then (4) and if you wanted the first 2 uppercase you would use (0,1) and then (2)
str = str.slice(0,3).toUpperCase + str.slice(4);Remember that an array starts at zero so always take one from the numbers you want.