Tag Archives: yui

How to customize the display of the GrailsUI Datepicker

By dhonig | March 30, 2009

I recently needed to customize the datepicker to only allow selections on specific dates. GrailsUI and YUI make customizing the display of dates in the datepicker super easy. One of the things I love most about YUI is the rich set of examples and the rich API docs for all of the [...]


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360 Degrees of Form Processing with Grails and GrailsUI Modal Dialogs

By dhonig | February 20, 2009

Daniel Honig is an independent architect/developer/consultant living in New York City. Daniel is a contributor to GrailsUI and is writing this post as a guest for the benefit of GrailsUI users.
So recently I was reviewing some work that was done for us by a few developers of our team and discovered that we had some very ugly code that used an iframe inside of a gui dialog for a form submission. This resulted in the dialog appearing with scroll bars and other undesirable behavior.
Why was it that they had chosen to use an iframe instead of  just  using [...]


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A GrailsUI Feature Addition, Step-By-Step

By Matthew Taylor | December 15, 2008

This is not a GrailsUI tutorial, this the story of a GrailsUI JIRA feature request, and how it was implemented.

The origin of this JIRA issue was the grails-user mailing list, where someone was asking about the easiest way to navigate on row click with a GrailsUI dataTable tag. There is a solution, but it [...]


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GrailsUI Component Accessibility Example: Switching Tabs in TabView

By Matthew Taylor | November 10, 2008

Recently, someone asked a very good question on the Grails mailing lists about GrailsUI. How can someone add a button within each tab in a tabView that switches to the next tab? Well, there is nothing within the GrailsUI API that allows such custom behavior, so it’s not like you can just add [...]


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GrailsUI 1.0 Released

By Matthew Taylor | October 31, 2008

The GrailsUI (GUI) Plugin has been silently under construction for a few months now, and it is ready for public consumption. It provides a collection of useful JavaScript widgets built using the Yahoo! UI library (2.6.0). Extensive documentation is on the Grails site.
GUI was built on three primary concepts, which were inspired by [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: