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Content Holder

Submitted by edwardhotchkiss on July 23, 2010 - 10:21pm

Allows to ease in a content holder to later be used with deep linking and flash like effects for loading content either through AJAX calls, or simply an animation to display the content div. onBefore and onAfter callback methods provided.

TopZIndex plugin for jQuery

Submitted by Speednet on September 1, 2009 - 2:59pm

This jQuery plugin calculates the highest CSS z-index value in the current document or specified set of elements, and also provides the ability to push one or more elements to the top of the z-index order.

To get the highest z-index in the document:
$.topZIndex();

To get the highest z-index for all div elements:
$.topZIndex("div");

To move an element to the top-most z-index:
$("#myElement").topZIndex();

To set an element's z-index to 10 more than the top-most z-index:
$("#myElement").topZIndex( { increment: 10 } );

The plugin is particularly useful for dynamic HTML popup windows/panels (or other dynamic elements) the order of which need to be re-shuffled on the page dynamically.

The minified version (included) is only 374 bytes.

The source code fully documents usage, with included support for Visual Studio IntelliSense.