Announcement

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02 Jul 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, components, and effects. This release was focused on bringing you a standardized development API across all of the components, allowing for a more seamless experience when working with the jQuery UI library.

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Levels: Beginner, Intermediate | Categories: Plugins | Filed under: Announcement, jQuery UI | 28 Comments »

02 Nov 2007

Tutorials Elsewhere

Quite a few jQuery tutorials have been posted around the web recently. It’s always great to see more people not only learning jQuery, but also teaching it to others. Here are just a few that I think could be helpful to readers of Learning jQuery:
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31 Oct 2007

Thanks for jQuery

Last week I attended The Ajax Experience conference in Boston (no, I didn’t go to a Red Sox game), sponsored by the folks at ajaxian.com The schedule was packed with outstanding presentations. But the highlight of my trip was jQueryCamp07, which was held at Harvard University on Saturday.

Throughout the week I had quite a few opportunities to talk with John Resig, the creator and lead developer of jQuery. But, like the social clod that I am, I forgot to do the one thing that I had set out to do: Thank John Resig, in person, for the jQuery JavaScript Library. It was only after I returned home on Sunday that I realized my oversight. So, at the risk of sounding sappy, I figure I ought to write in a public forum what I had meant to say face to face.
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20 Oct 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. Actually, I didn't discover it until someone notified me that another page on the site was broken. Can you spot the problem(s)? [Note: the problem is not in line 3. The syntax highlighter just can't handle the regular expression with two slashes in it ("//") and is incorrectly treating them as a comment mark.] See the answer below the code.

PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:
  1. $(document).ready(function(){
  2.   $('a[href*=#]').click(function() {
  3.     if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'')
  4.     && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
  5.       var $target = $(this.hash);
  6.       $target = $target.length && $target
  7.       || $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
  8.       if ($target.length) {
  9.         var targetOffset = $target.offset().top;
  10.         $('html,body')
  11.         .animate({scrollTop: targetOffset}, 1000);
  12.        return false;
  13.       }
  14.     }
  15.   });
  16. });

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Levels: Beginner, Intermediate | Categories: DOM Modification, DOM Traversing, Effects, Events | Filed under: Announcement | 123 Comments »

17 Aug 2007

Book Excerpt – Table Manipulation

Packt Publishing has just posted an excerpt of our new book Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques on their site. The excerpt covers table sorting, pagination, row highlighting/striping, and basic tooltips. It also gives a hat tip to Roger Johansson of 456 Berea Street and Christian Bach of jQuery Table Sorter fame (by the way, Christian has just released version 2.0 of the plugin, and it's awesome!). Here is the summary: Read the rest of this entry »

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07 May 2007

jquery.com back up

The jquery.com site is up and running again. The DNS is still propagating across the net, so it might not be available quite yet from every location, but it should be fully reachable within the next day. I'll leave source files on my server for the next couple days, so feel free to grab them from here (see previous post for details) if you're still not able to get to jquery.com. Thanks, everyone, for your patience. Also, if you'd like to donate a few bucks to help John with the setup costs for the new web host, you can do that here or on the jquery.com home page:

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