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jay.blanc..

Help us to help you....

in Getting Started • 8 years ago

When posting a problem try to describe it as thoroughly as you can. Just saying "this doesn't work" with no detail means that your question will take more time to answer. Here are a couple of helpful resources for learning how to post a good question -

http://www.whathaveyoutried.com
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Feel free to ask general discussions too, these suggestions are for when you're having an actual issue with your code and cannot figure out why it doesn't work.

Keep in mind that your question may have been answered here before - search the forum and you may find your answers.

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Godsbest

Re: Help us to help you....

8 years ago

Good point Jay!

Another area that causes many questions/posts to be skipped over by developers who would have otherwise answered the question/contributed to the discussion, is when users insist on including server-side code in their markup. Unless server-side code is absolutely necessary, you're better off viewing your page via a browser and posting the page source (generated HTML).

jQuery (JavaScript) does not really care what server-side technology you use - it does not get to see it. The web server (applications) converts the server-side code into HTML and presents that to the browser.

Whenever server-side code is posted here, the developer has to do the work of the web server (which most of us are not ready/willing to do) and then, before they can do what needs to be done. Please keep that in mind next time you ask a question.

Please ..... help us help you ..... if the PHP/ASP.NET/JSP ... you include in your markup does not add value to your question, do not include it!!

kbwood.au

Re: Help us to help you....

8 years ago

Better yet, provide a link to a page that demonstrates the problem, preferably on a site like JSFiddle so that we can make changes and test things out. This process also helps you to focus on the actual problem without lots of extraneous markup and code.

If you do include code in your question, please format it using the WYSIWYG code button so that it is visible on the page.

jay.blanc..

Re: Help us to help you....

8 years ago

Folks here are unlikely to download zipped files of your projects and go through all of your code for many reasons, including the potential for viruses and malware. Please try to isolate the relevant code and copy it into your post.

dsvick

Re: Help us to help you....

8 years ago

" isolate the relevant code " !! Yes, that helps narrow it down a lot. And, as Keith mentioned above, taking a minute to properly format it goes a long way to making it easier to read, and thus easier for you to get the help you need.

Dave

quozzo

Re: Help us to help you....

8 years ago

Using jsfiddle or the like is useful too as it forces the user the isolate the problem (which they may solve themselves) and it is in a presentable format too.

solineoz

Re: Re: Help us to help you....

8 years ago

Yeah, and they can run the JSHint to solve simple coding errors such as missing semi-colon, misspell method, etc...

- Solineoz -

Niral Soni

Re: Help us to help you....

8 years ago

One more thing to be added in the stack - Which JQuery version the user is using for development; and where required, the details of the tools/browsers on which getting such problems.

jay.blanc..

Re: Help us to help you....

7 years ago

If you're a student it is good to ask for guidance, but do not ask people to do your homework.

jQuest

Re: Help us to help you....

7 years ago

Question
Where can I find complete list of all BUG fixes from older [jQuery UI Automation libraries] build 1.8.10 to the latest build 1.10.2

Looking for complete listing of all Bug Fixes from 1.8.10 to 1.10.2

Thanks!
Alex

jay.blanc..