Learning jQuery

Karl Swedberg, who is the founder of LearningjQuery has reluctantly sold the website and so now the site will be getting fresh new content and will likely be updated several times per week. Stay tuned for the continuation of useful jQuery tutorials and lessons on an on-going basis.  We hope to expand the content to […]

This post has been a long time in coming, and I’m sure it comes as no surprise to anyone who has been to the site in the past year and a half. But it’s time to make it official: the Learning jQuery blog has come to an end. I started this blog seven years ago […]

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.