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Andy E

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I'm mainly a JavaScript coder, with some experience in other languages.

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Top Questions
110 votes

The editing race - the slackers always win

feature-request status-completed edits asked May 30 '11 at 10:38
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96 votes

How do HTML parses work if they're not using regexp?

html regex parsing html-parsing asked Mar 8 '10 at 10:30
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42 votes

Can I load an entire HTML document into a document fragment in Internet Explorer?

javascript html internet-explorer dom asked Sep 19 '11 at 17:15
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37 votes

Add date range to “Advanced Super Ninja Search Options”

feature-request status-completed search advanced-search ninja asked Jun 25 '10 at 16:40
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27 votes

How can I kill a <defunct> process whose parent is init?

kill signals process-management init zombie-process asked Apr 12 '11 at 14:02
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27 votes

Please add a reply button to messages in the pinned/starred section

feature-request chat chat-stars asked Jun 22 '11 at 23:20
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26 votes

Inheriting dimensions only if they are specified on the parent element

css web-component custom-element asked Jun 12 '15 at 12:44
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26 votes

Revival badge can be gained by down voting the *real* first answer

bug status-bydesign revival-badge asked Mar 8 '12 at 10:09
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25 votes

Timestamp on question is later than Profile's Seen, must be some time traveller or ninja

bug status-bydesign profile-page last-activity asked Nov 15 '10 at 12:01
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23 votes

Why doesn't an octal literal as a string cast to a number?

javascript ecmascript-5 asked Mar 30 '10 at 18:54
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Top Answers
1972
Parse JSON in JavaScript?
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1840
Retrieve the position (X,Y) of an HTML element relative to the browser window
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1718
How can I get query string values in JavaScript?
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837
Check if a number has a decimal place/is a whole number
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732
How can I beautify JSON programmatically?
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700
How to use a variable for a key in a JavaScript object literal?
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695
Is there a way to detect if a browser window is not currently active?
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592
How to remove the hash from window.location (URL) with JavaScript without page refresh?
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482
How do I iterate through children elements of a div using jQuery?
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478
How can I trigger an onchange event manually?
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466
Advantages of using prototype, vs defining methods straight in the constructor?
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439
URL encode sees “&” (ampersand) as “&amp;” HTML entity
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439
Getting value of select (dropdown) before change
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418
Convert MySql DateTime stamp into JavaScript's Date format
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411
How to find the width of a div using vanilla JavaScript?
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385
How do I convert an object to an array?
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379
How do I get an element to scroll into view, using jQuery?
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359
Using an HTML button to call a JavaScript function
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346
How do I properly escape quotes inside HTML attributes?
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329
What's the difference between `on` and `live` or `bind`?
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317
Set value of hidden field in a form using jQuery's “.val()” doesn't work
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313
Find if variable is divisible by 2
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306
How to display all methods of an object?
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299
Does IE9 support console.log, and is it a real function?
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271
Event on a disabled input
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266
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions
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255
How to store values from foreach loop into an array?
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253
Javascript: How to loop through ALL DOM elements on a page?
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238
How to vertically center divs?
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192
Is it wrong to place the <script> tag after the </body> tag?
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