Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something troublesome about clicking on the text “Remember me” when attempting to log into a website only to discover that someone hasn’t taken the time to associate the text to the checkbox with a label tag. Granted, it doesn’t really harm the functionality of the site, but it does cause me to stop and fume for a moment over having to actually click on the tiny little checkbox instead.
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12.21.2009
The value of labels
09.15.2009
jQuery, AJAX, Forms and Editing
I ran into a problem while creating a donation page that interacts with the ACH Federal API. I had planned in using jQuery and AJAX to call the post.php file in the page for confirmation of information and then later being submitted. I had to figure out a way to create an effective “Edit” type button on the confirmation page in case mistakes were made so that the user could fix them then resubmit. Problem was, that while you can store the HTML of a form and repopulate it when needed, storing the HTML of the form does not store the data present in the form at the time of storing.
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