Learning jQuery

I've been developing jQuery plugins for quite a while now, and I've become rather comfortable with a particular style of plugin development for my scripts. This article is meant to share the pattern that I've found especially useful for plugin authoring. It assumes you already have an understanding of plugin development for jQuery; if you're […]

Sometimes it is very convenient to store information on an element by using custom properties (DOM Expandos). For example, I use DOM Expandos in my Mouse Wheel plugin to store an array of handler methods (_mwHandlers) along with a method (_mwHandler) to call all those handlers when the mouse wheel is used. Storing these methods […]

Dynamically binding event handlers to content that has been ajaxed in with $.load without repeating yourself can be tricky. Lambda functions help you to not repeat yourself as much. jQuery uses lamdba functions everywhere, so if you're familiar with jQuery, you should be familiar with the syntax of lambda functions. In this example, the ajaxed-in […]