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I just wanted to quickly share a trick I’ve learnt whilst putting the final touches on our new CMS (more on that later no doubt). There’s nothing particularly clever about it, but it might save you some time.

I could probably write a small book on the virtues of jQuery and how it’s changed my JavaScript programming life and actually made it enjoyable…. however, let’s cut the crap and talk plugins!

In our first look at jQuery we established that we could use JQuery to “fix” some of the discrepancies of certain browsers handling of CSS. We used jQuery to simply append (or prepend) a little bit of information inside of a tag enabling us to make site wide changes to certain visual cues very quickly and simply.

I’m a bit funny when it comes to semantic markup. I really don’t like putting visual cues into the markup that I may want to change later. You know those little symbols that we put at the end or beginning of a sentence, that we sometimes no longer use as literary symbols.