Learning jQuery

With jQuery, it’s possible to write code that executes client-side validations for your forms and input fields. A common validation to make is to check whether or not an email address that’s entered into an email field is actually a valid email address (or at least in valid email address format). The following is a […]

Image sliders are useful for showing multiple images with cool animations to catch a user’s attention.  Having an image slider/slideshow is a very common functionality that you may find on any website. Creating a simple image slider is pretty easy and it can be implemented easily with jQuery. There are tons of plugins available for […]

If you cache your jQuery elements, it means that you store an element as a variable so that you can re-use that element without your jQuery having to re-query the DOM in search of it every time you want to apply some code to that element. It’s not always necessary, but in cases where you […]

jQuery’s .show() and .hide() methods can be used to show or hide any HTML elements on a page. Usually, the methods are used as the results of a trigger event (for example, if an item is either hidden or shown based on a click event) or used with a timer function so that something hides […]

In jQuery, there several different methods that can be used to make an element fade in and out of view. They are: .fadeIn(), .fadeoOut(), .fadeToggle(), and .fadeTo(). .fadeIn() and .fadeOut() are pretty self explanatory. When triggered, it is used to have items either fade in or fade out, respectively. .fadeToggle() is used to toggle between […]

jQuery’s .one() method is a really cool method that, when used, will trigger a function attached to a certain selector or element only once. Normally with jQuery methods, they will occur as many times as the trigger event is triggered, but when you use the .one() method, the code that it’s attached to only gets […]