Learning jQuery

Among all of the great fixes and additions to jQuery 1.6, I’m happy to say that jQuery.map() now supports objects! The previous map only supported arrays. With other libraries already offering object support for map, it was a nice addition.

Half-baked tutorials and plugins have been stacking up for months in my virtual kitchen, waiting for me to fire up the oven, finish the cooking, and spread them out on the table. For some reason, though, I’ve become less and less sure about whether I’ve put all the right ingredients into the mix. It’s irritating, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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().

Last time I showed how to use event delegation to create a simple tooltip for a huge number of elements without running into the problem of binding an event handler to all of those elements. In this tutorial, I’m going to refine that tooltip script a bit, avoiding some code repetition and fixing a bug […]