Learning jQuery

Most if not all of the jQuery plugins out there have some level of customization. But very few of the plugin authors have mastered the very particular art involved. Achieving the "optimum level" of customization is a bit of a balancing act… go too far either way and you've got an unusable plugin!

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on danheberden.com. jQuery’s .animate() method, and the shorthand methods that use it, are fantastic tools to create animations. Creating animations that link together to achieve a particular effect, and do something specific at the end of the animation, can be a painful, messy task. Luckily, we have .queue() for […]

The .pushStack() method has been in jQuery since before version 1.0, but it hasn't received a whole lot of attention outside of core developers and plugin authors. While its usefulness may not be immediately apparent, it can come in really handy in some situations, so I'd like to take a quick look at what it […]

JSON.parse() and jQuery.parseJSON(), both are used to parse a JSON string and returns resulting JavaScript value or object described by the string. jQuery.parseJSON() is available only when jQuery library is used where JSON.parse() is JavaScript's standard built-in JSON object method. So the question is if jQuery library is used, then which one should be used […]

CSS isn't really a very dynamic or flexible language, but with the help of jQuery, it's easy to make certain styles dynamic and changeable with just a few simple lines of code. What follows are 3 really useful and easy ways to manipulate CSS classes using jQuery. Check for Class In jQuery, there's a built […]

Automatic scrolling is a feature that causes a web page to scroll down automatically at a predetermined and configurable rate. This is quite a useful feature for websites that contain long articles, posts or some other lengthy web content. This feature saves users from having to scroll the page using their mouse or keyboard. In […]