TJ VanToll

Oh hi! I’m TJ VanToll and this is my blog.

I’m a Web Developer working for Liquid Web in Lansing, MI and I have been making web sites since the web was a thing. I have experience with sites ranging from major applications for Fortune 500 companies to small personal sites and everything in between.

I’m also an open source advocate and a jQuery UI team member. This blog itself is open source and if you’d like to dig around the source to see how I’ve made it you’re free to.

Things I have written that are elsewhere on the internet.

• April 16th, 2013: Script Junkie HTML5 Datalists: What They Are They and When to Use Them
• March 6th, 2013: Script Junkie Creating Custom Tooltips with jQuery UI
• October 17th, 2012: HTML5 Rocks Constraint Validation: Native Client Side Validation for Web Forms

  A great tutorial: Native Client-Side validation for Web forms - bit.ly/QrhspI

  — Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag) October 24, 2012

Posts that were good or that I deceived people into clicking from Google searches.

• April 15th, 2013:List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls

  All of the form input pseudo-elements for styling: tjvantoll.com/2013/04/15/lis… Exhaustively cataloged by @tjvantoll

  — Paul Irish (@paul_irish) April 15, 2013

• July 15th, 2012:Native HTML5 Number Picker and jQuery UI’s Spinner - Which to Use?
• June 30th, 2012:Creating a Native HTML 5 Datepicker with a Fallback to jQuery UI
• June 15th, 2012:Detecting Print Requests with JavaScript
• May 2nd, 2012:window.showModalDialog: What It is and Why You Should Never Use It

Occasionally I make things.

Liquid Web’s 15th Anniversary Celebration

An interactive timeline with scroll triggered animations. If that’s not cool enough you also get to play with bubbles and clouds.