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These jQuery resources will set you on the path towards mastering jQuery. Written Articles Getting Started with jQuery – this is the official jQuery getting started guide. jQuery for JavaScript Programmers – Simon Willison (creator of django) gives you an introduction to jQuery for people who already understand JavaScript. jQuery Crash Course – Nathan Smith gives a quick introduction [...]
Posted on 7 July 2010 | 3:11 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
The jQuery Autocomplete plugin got a successor recently, the jQuery UI Autocomplete. In this guide we'll look at the old plugin API step-by-step, and how to migrate to the new API. At first it may look like the new plugin supports barely any of the old options. We'll see how all the old options can be [...]
Posted on 23 June 2010 | 1:28 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood
The jQuery UI 1.8 release brings along the new autocomplete widget. An autocomplete adds a list of suggestions to an input field, displayed and filtered while the user is typing. This could be attached to a search field, suggesting either search terms or just matching results for faster navigation. But what if there is a [...]
Posted on 8 June 2010 | 10:00 am
Source: Learning jQuery
Now you see me… show/hide performance
I just got back from the jQuery conference in San Francisco. Wow, what an event. In addition to some incredible talks, I had the opportunity to speak with Rey Bango, Johnathon Sharp, and, of course, John Resig. Any conference where you get to talk to some of the most influential people in jQuery [...]
Posted on 4 May 2010 | 12:51 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
Editor's Note: When I started this blog nearly three years ago, one of the first things I did was write a series on showing and hiding elements on a page. The posts were very basic, as was my knowledge at the time. At best, they demonstrated an incomplete answer to the question of how to [...]
Posted on 23 April 2010 | 1:42 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
Flip your Tip: Keeping the Event-delegation Tooltip in View
Before we begin, please accept my apologies for not posting this tutorial sooner. I know at least two or three people were beginning to wonder if I'd ever finish what I started with this tooltip series. Please also forgive me if the phrase "flip your tip" has a double meaning in some ultra-hip corner of [...]
Posted on 15 April 2010 | 4:51 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
Spring 2010 jQuery Conference: San Francisco Bay Area
Since the fall of 2007, jQuery developers around the world have been making an annual pilgrimage to Boston, Massachusetts, to meet jQuery team members, JavaScript luminaries, and other jQuery developers at the official jQuery Conference. This spring, in response to growing demand, the jQuery Project is offering its first-ever official jQuery conference on the U.S [...]
Posted on 29 March 2010 | 1:26 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
Detecting Ajax Events on the Server
When working with an Ajax-enhanced website, it's generally a good idea to provide a regular request fallback for any core functionality of the site. When you work to ensure that a fallback is in place, you will be faced with determining when a particular request is an Ajax request or just a normal page request. [...]
Posted on 6 March 2010 | 5:20 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
Using Delegate and Undelegate in jQuery 1.4.2
As some of you have heard, there have been two new methods added in jQuery 1.4.2, .delegate() and .undelegate(). These methods achieve the same thing as the .live() and .die() methods, they just use a different syntax. For those new to .live(), it's a method in jQuery that allows you to attach events to elements [...]
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 5:59 am
Source: Learning jQuery
Using setTimeout to Delay Showing Event-Delegation Tooltips
In my last two tutorials, I explained how to use event delegation for showing and hiding tooltips. In a comment on the first one, Jan Aagaard asked how we might go about enhancing the script by adding a small delay before showing a tooltip. The answer lies with two JavaScript functions, setTimeout() and clearTimeout(). Setting [...]
Posted on 16 December 2009 | 5:47 pm
Source: Learning jQuery
