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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.
From @Godsbest
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).
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.
From @Godsbest
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!!
From @kbwood.au
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.
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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.
From @kbwood.au
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.
More:
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.
