Learning jQuery

It’s been so long since I last posted a tutorial here that I’m afraid everyone might have forgotten about the place. For the past few months, there has been a little “Page Contents” menu at the top-right corner of some of the pages on this site — actually, any page that has more than one […]

A few weeks ago I wrote about two ways we can achieve the “accordion menu” effect, and I promised to describe a third option. Well, this is it, Option 3. But first, here is a list of my other show-hide-toggle entries, as well as Jörn Zaefferer’s accordion menu plug-in: More Showing, More Hiding Slicker Show […]

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 […]

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 […]

A couple weeks ago someone on the jQuery discussion list asked if someone could reproduce a rotating headline box in which the headlines, in succession, scroll up into the box, pause, and then scroll up out of the box. Since I already had some code for rotating images on a page, I decided to recycle […]

JonBob and I have been working on a TextMate bundle for jQuery over the past few weeks. If you’re not familiar with TextMate and you own a Mac, you should definitely check it out. It has saved me countless hours of repetitive keystrokes with its bundles, which contain commands, code snippets, templates, and macros that […]