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  • DOM Modification

    • Aug 19, 2008 Quick Tip: Dynamically add an icon for external links
      A common feature I've seen on “web 2.0” sites and wikis is the "external link" icon: . While I'm not crazy about the i…
    • Jul 8, 2008 Three Quick Ways to Avoid Widows
      A few months ago I threw together a quick redesign of the Learning jQuery site. It's nothing fancy, mind you, but I was itching to…
    • May 12, 2008 Using Low Pro for jQuery
      Recently I have been getting a real buzz out of developing with jQuery. I've been using the library since 2006, releasing spora…
    • Mar 31, 2008 Working with Events, part 1
      CSS and JavaScript are different in many ways, almost all of which are too obvious to mention. However, one difference between the…
    • Jan 4, 2008 Revealing Details with jQuery
      A week or so ago, someone posted a comment on one of my previous articles, asking if I could help her split up the textual content…
    • Jun 25, 2007 Automatic Page Contents
      It's been so long since I last posted a tutorial here that I'm afraid everyone might have forgotten about the place. For the past …
    • Jan 31, 2007 Copy Events from One Element to Another
      Need to clone an element and its events? Sure, you could rebind the events after doing the clone, but that wouldn't be very DRY no…
    • Jan 17, 2007 Effect Delay Trick
      Here is a quick trick for getting an effect to delay without using setTimeout. Let's say, for example, that I want to show an aler…
    • Dec 12, 2006 Multiple Fancy Drop Caps
      After I wrote a couple entries (Fancy Drop Cap, Part 1 and Part 2) on creating a drop cap for the first paragraph in a DIV, a coup…
    • Nov 19, 2006 Really Simple Live Comment Preview
      Introduction and Caveat I'm sure that some of you were expecting this entry to discuss traversing the DOM using jQuery methods. Af…
    • Oct 2, 2006 Fancy Drop Cap - Part 2
      In Fancy Drop Cap - Part 1, I showed how I used jQuery to insert a drop cap on my personal weblog. But there is still some unfinis…
    • Sep 20, 2006 Fancy Drop Cap - Part 1
      Introduction Last spring when I implemented a new design for my weblog, I wanted to use a fancy drop cap for the first letter of t…

  • DOM Traversing

    • Jan 3, 2009 The Year of jQuery UI
      Two years ago I made the somewhat immodest claim that 2007 would be the "Year of jQuery." Since then, jQuery's popularity has grow…
    • Aug 19, 2008 Quick Tip: Dynamically add an icon for external links
      A common feature I've seen on “web 2.0” sites and wikis is the "external link" icon: . While I'm not crazy about the i…
    • Jan 4, 2008 Revealing Details with jQuery
      A week or so ago, someone posted a comment on one of my previous articles, asking if I could help her split up the textual content…
    • Dec 19, 2007 Questions and Answers from the List
      I've been feeling guilty lately about my lack of posts to this blog. But when I looked at my profile for the jQuery Google Group a…
    • Mar 21, 2007 Selecting Elements by Properties and DOM Expandos
      Sometimes it is very convenient to store information on an element by using custom properties (DOM Expandos). For example, I use D…
    • Dec 16, 2006 Quick Tip - Optimizing DOM Traversal
      The topic of optimization has come up a number of times in the jQuery mailing list. jQuery's DOM traversal is powerful and easy, b…
    • Dec 12, 2006 Multiple Fancy Drop Caps
      After I wrote a couple entries (Fancy Drop Cap, Part 1 and Part 2) on creating a drop cap for the first paragraph in a DIV, a coup…
    • Dec 3, 2006 How to Get Anything You Want - part 2
      A couple weeks ago I wrote about traversing the DOM with jQuery's selector expressions to get any elements in the document (see H…
    • Nov 12, 2006 How to Get Anything You Want - part 1
      With jQuery, you can get to just about anything on a web page. In this entry, I'll show you a few ways you can use jQuery's vers…
    • Oct 16, 2006 Quick Tip - Blurring Links
      With all the fun new things you can do using jQuery and other JavaScript libraries, people are using links ("a" tags) for much mor…
    • Oct 2, 2006 Fancy Drop Cap - Part 2
      In Fancy Drop Cap - Part 1, I showed how I used jQuery to insert a drop cap on my personal weblog. But there is still some unfinis…
    • Sep 20, 2006 Fancy Drop Cap - Part 1
      Introduction Last spring when I implemented a new design for my weblog, I wanted to use a fancy drop cap for the first letter of t…

  • Effects

    • Feb 12, 2008 Simple Effects Plugins
      jQuery has a nice selection of core animation effects, such as .show('speed') and .hide('speed'), .slideUp() and .slideDown(), and…
    • Oct 20, 2007 Improved Animated Scrolling Script for Same-Page Links
      After posting the last entry on animated scrolling with jQuery 1.2, I realized that I had left out an important piece of code. Act…
    • Sep 16, 2007 Animated Scrolling with jQuery 1.2
      A few weeks ago I wrote about how to use jQuery and a couple modules from the Interface plugin suite to automatically have same-pa…
    • Jun 25, 2007 Automatic Page Contents
      It's been so long since I last posted a tutorial here that I'm afraid everyone might have forgotten about the place. For the past …
    • Mar 5, 2007 Accordion Madness
      A few weeks ago I wrote about two ways we can achieve the "accordion menu" effect, and I promised to describe a third option. Wel…
    • Feb 8, 2007 More Showing, More Hiding
      We've received a number of comments recently from people looking for variations on the showing and hiding theme. For the basics, y…
    • Jan 17, 2007 Effect Delay Trick
      Here is a quick trick for getting an effect to delay without using setTimeout. Let's say, for example, that I want to show an aler…
    • Oct 14, 2006 Scroll Up Headline Reader
      A couple weeks ago someone on the jQuery discussion list asked if someone could reproduce a rotating headline box in which the hea…
    • Sep 11, 2006 Slicker Show and Hide
      Last time I showed you how to make something appear and disappear on a web page. This time I'll show you how to do it with style. …
    • Sep 6, 2006 Basic Show and Hide
      As promised in my last entry, I'll be showing you a simple effect that you can do using jQuery: showing or hiding something, or a …

  • Events

    • Jan 3, 2009 The Year of jQuery UI
      Two years ago I made the somewhat immodest claim that 2007 would be the "Year of jQuery." Since then, jQuery's popularity has grow…
    • Dec 7, 2008 Quick Tip: Click Table Row to Trigger a Checkbox Click
      Somebody on the jQuery Google Group asked the other day about toggling a checkbox within a table row when the user clicked anywher…
    • Oct 15, 2008 1 (Awesome) Way To Avoid the (Not So Excellent) Flash of (Amazing) Unstyled Content
      This tutorial describes a way to avoid a flash of unstyled content that sometimes occurs when applying styles with JavaScript on p…
    • May 19, 2008 Working with Events, part 2
      In my last article, I described the common problem of events seemingly ceasing to work for new elements added to a document, wheth…
    • May 12, 2008 Using Low Pro for jQuery
      Recently I have been getting a real buzz out of developing with jQuery. I've been using the library since 2006, releasing spora…
    • Mar 31, 2008 Working with Events, part 1
      CSS and JavaScript are different in many ways, almost all of which are too obvious to mention. However, one difference between the…
    • Oct 20, 2007 Improved Animated Scrolling Script for Same-Page Links
      After posting the last entry on animated scrolling with jQuery 1.2, I realized that I had left out an important piece of code. Act…
    • Sep 20, 2007 Namespace Your Events
      A common pattern in jQuery plugin development is the need to undo what the plugin has done. This is usually handled through a meth…
    • Feb 17, 2007 Quick Tip - Set Hover Class for Anything
      Sometimes it's nice to be able to give users visual feedback when they hover their mouse over an element on the page. It's easy to…
    • Feb 8, 2007 More Showing, More Hiding
      We've received a number of comments recently from people looking for variations on the showing and hiding theme. For the basics, y…
    • Jan 31, 2007 Copy Events from One Element to Another
      Need to clone an element and its events? Sure, you could rebind the events after doing the clone, but that wouldn't be very DRY no…
    • Nov 19, 2006 Really Simple Live Comment Preview
      Introduction and Caveat I'm sure that some of you were expecting this entry to discuss traversing the DOM using jQuery methods. Af…
    • Oct 16, 2006 Quick Tip - Blurring Links
      With all the fun new things you can do using jQuery and other JavaScript libraries, people are using links ("a" tags) for much mor…
    • Oct 14, 2006 Scroll Up Headline Reader
      A couple weeks ago someone on the jQuery discussion list asked if someone could reproduce a rotating headline box in which the hea…
    • Sep 5, 2006 Multiple $(document).ready()
      One more great thing about $(document).ready() that I didn't mention in my previous post is that you can use it more than once. In…
    • Sep 2, 2006 Introducing $(document).ready()
      This is the first thing to learn about jQuery: If you want an event to work on your page, you should call it inside the $(document…
    • Sep 1, 2006 Sacrificial Lambda
      Dynamically binding event handlers to content that has been ajaxed in with $.load without repeating yourself can be tricky. Lambda…

  • Plugins

    • Jan 3, 2009 The Year of jQuery UI
      Two years ago I made the somewhat immodest claim that 2007 would be the "Year of jQuery." Since then, jQuery's popularity has grow…
    • Jul 2, 2008 Introduction to jQuery UI
      After many months of stellar work, the jQuery UI team has released version 1.5 of their flagship suite of user-interface widgets, …
    • May 12, 2008 Using Low Pro for jQuery
      Recently I have been getting a real buzz out of developing with jQuery. I've been using the library since 2006, releasing spora…
    • Feb 12, 2008 Simple Effects Plugins
      jQuery has a nice selection of core animation effects, such as .show('speed') and .hide('speed'), .slideUp() and .slideDown(), and…
    • Dec 19, 2007 Questions and Answers from the List
      I've been feeling guilty lately about my lack of posts to this blog. But when I looked at my profile for the jQuery Google Group a…
    • Dec 10, 2007 Managing the creative process behind a jQuery plugin
      An excellent post by Mike Alsup described a plugin development pattern that has served him quite well over time. I have used Block…
    • Oct 30, 2007 A Plugin Development Pattern
      I've been developing jQuery plugins for quite a while now, and I've become rather comfortable with a particular style of plugin de…
    • Sep 20, 2007 Namespace Your Events
      A common pattern in jQuery plugin development is the need to undo what the plugin has done. This is usually handled through a meth…
    • Jul 20, 2007 clueTip Plugin Beta 2
      Beta 2 of the clueTip Plugin for jQuery is out the door and on the server. I've made a number of fairly significant changes (for t…
    • May 24, 2007 Half-Star Rating Plugin
      There was a request recently on the jQuery discussion list for an enhancement to Ritesh Agrawal's Simple Star Rating System to a…
    • Jan 31, 2007 Copy Events from One Element to Another
      Need to clone an element and its events? Sure, you could rebind the events after doing the clone, but that wouldn't be very DRY no…
    • Oct 18, 2006 Updated Plugin - jTip
      In the jQuery universe, Cody Lindley is probably most known and loved for his Thickbox, a lightbox technique that "can show html p…

  • Utilities