Using jQuery to highlight required fields

One of the things that can get to be a pain in the bum to manage is the little indicator element that your designer has chosen to indicate required fields in a form.
The designer I am currently working with likes to use an asterisk to indicate a required field, and while that is not a problem, it gets fiddly and frustrating to manage down the line as form fields and required data changes through the evolution of a website. jQuery to the rescuse with a cross browser solution for CakePHP, inspired by the :after CSS pseudo class.[ read full post > ]