Learning jQuery

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Warning Using JavaScript to blur clicked links is NOT recommended because it interferes with basic accessibility, especially for those using keyboard navigation or other assistive technologies With all the fun new things you can do using jQuery and other JavaScript libraries, people are using links ("a" tags) for much more than sending users to a […]

A couple weeks ago someone on the jQuery discussion list asked if someone could reproduce a rotating headline box in which the headlines, in succession, scroll up into the box, pause, and then scroll up out of the box. Since I already had some code for rotating images on a page, I decided to recycle […]

John Resig just announced on the jQuery mailing list this evening that jQuery 1.0.2 has been released. According to Resig, "This release is a huge bug fix release - and it is highly recommended that you upgrade right away." Resig also credited Jörn Zaefferer with much of the work on this latest jQuery version: I'd […]

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 unfinished business to take care of: Accounting for cases in which the first paragraph (where I want my drop cap to go) starts with another tag of some […]