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While the TabControl provided by Microsoft in the AJAX toolkit is probably a bit easier to use, the Tabs in jQuery are not much harder to implement and give us a bit more flexibility.

Here are the steps to implement:

First, make sure the HTML (ASPX) page you are creating is pointing at the stylesheet that contains the jQuery UI theme you are using.  The tabs make use of the themes and will not render as tabs unless the styles are pulled in.

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Last week we looked at how to have jQuery execute our own functions. I suggested at the time that if you were going to need to use that function in multiple applications, you might want to consider turning it into a plug-in.

Today we’ll look at how to do that.

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Not to be confused with cross page posting, cross domain submission allows us to post the contents of an ASP.NET form to a completely different domain.

To achieve this we will need to use a bit of javascript and you’ll need to resort to using regular HTML controls.

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I’ve spent a good chunk of the last two days working on an interesting project for one of my clients that I think the rest of the jQuery community could benefit from.

The task started when my client came to me with an existing script that was being used in a DotNetNuke system to expand and collapse content under head tags that was produced by an article editing system similar to the Text/HTML module.

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I’ve been programming for 21 years now.  Most of my career I’ve spent being on the bleeding edge.  This has helped when it came time to find work because I normally am one of the few people companies can find who have the skills they are looking for.

While I never intentionally set out to watch trends and adjust my skills accordingly, I’ve found that it has been a great asset, so that now I am a lot more intentional about watching trends and creating hypothesis about what they will mean for the job market.  So, the following are some observations.

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