Learning jQuery

With more and more people accessing the web from mobile devices and tablets every day, it's becoming increasingly important for websites to be responsive, and one of the most important aspects of a mobile friendly website is a responsive navigation. Creating a mobile-friendly navigation menu without the use of a plugin might seem like a […]

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 […]

In the beginning (well, beginning with jQuery 1.2.3 in early 2008) there was the jQuery.data() API. It offers a way to associate JavaScript data — strings, numbers, or any object — with a DOM element. As long as you manipulate the DOM element with jQuery, the library ensures that when the DOM element goes away, […]

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.

The jQuery Autocomplete plugin got a successor recently, the jQuery UI Autocomplete. In this guide we'll look at the old plugin API step-by-step, and how to migrate to the new API. At first it may look like the new plugin supports barely any of the old options. We'll see how all the old options can […]

Update on 2010-08-17: This article was updated to reflect the changes to the combobox code in jQuery UI 1.8.4 The jQuery UI 1.8 release brings along the new autocomplete widget. An autocomplete adds a list of suggestions to an input field, displayed and filtered while the user is typing. This could be attached to a […]