Learning jQuery

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 do, of course, with a little CSS: #hover-demo1 p:hover { background: #ff0; } That little style rule changes the background of any paragraph that is a descendant of an element […]

We’ve received a number of comments recently from people looking for variations on the showing and hiding theme. For the basics, you can take a look at two earlier entries, Basic Show and Hide and Slicker Show and Hide. For a full-blown plugin solution with lots of options, look no further than Jörn Zaefferer’s Accordion […]

Hot on the heels of my jQuerify Bookmarklet entry [note: update bookmarklet here] and John Resig’s Hacking Digg with Firebug and jQuery entry, Joan Piedra has put together a Greasemonkey user script (Firefox only) that lets jQuery load automatically on any site that you’ve set for it in the Greasemonkey preferences dialog.

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 now, would it? Introducing Copy Events, a new plugin for jQuery.

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 alert message on the page every time a user clicks on a certain button. But I don’t want it to stay there forever; I want it to go away a few […]

It’s jQuery’s first birthday, and John Resig and the development team are celebrating in style with a brand new release of jQuery! Version 1.1 has just about every performance and feature improvement that I mentioned in my previous Year of jQuery entry — the huge speed improvements, the streamlined API, and even the much-improved documentation […]