If you’re fairly inexperienced with JavaScript but you’ve used jQuery, then its likely you’ve used callback functions . But maybe you don’t fully understand how they work or how they’re implemented. In this post, which is based on what I’ve learned about callback functions, I’ll try to enlighten you on this fairly common JavaScript technique If you’re [...]

On a current project, I was trying to find a way to auto-resize a textarea according to some content that would be loaded in dynamically via Ajax. I didn’t know the height of the content and the textarea element doesn’t resize naturally like other HTML elements, so I needed to update the height of the element with JavaScript each time the content changed. It seemed like a simple task On [...]