Category Archives: jQuery
Loading jQuery From Google With Graceful Fallback
This is a little example of how to load jQuery from Googles CDN. I prefer to load it from there as it’s nicely minified and g-zipped as well there is a better chance a user would have already picked up … Continue reading
jQuery Humanized Message Plugin
This post is to introduce the newest Websanova jQuery Humanized Message Plugin. It’s a very sleek way to display a status message/feedback to the user rather than updating some little div on the page. This message pops up nice and … Continue reading
10 Awesome jQuery Tag Cloud Plugins
This is a collection of jQuery tag clouds (or word clouds if you like) plugins. They range from simple old fashioned clouds to more complex 3D rotating clouds with zoom built in. Notable ones include Awesome Cloud that looks great … Continue reading
HTML5 jQuery Scratch Pad Plugin
The Websanova Scratch Pad is a unique one of a kind plugin that allows you to add a scratching effect to images something similar to scratching a lottery ticket. It is written using canvas so you would need an HTML5 … Continue reading
jQuery Remove Class by Regular Expression
I recently came across a problem in an app I was working on of needing to remove a class name from an element that began with a particular string. The removeClass() method that comes with jQuery does not seem to … Continue reading
Duck Punching jQuery Ajax
I recently came across a very particular problem using jQuery’s ajax() function. I wanted to have a global handler that would intercept all “success” requests, check them for a return code and only continue processing if the code returned had … Continue reading
A Large Collection of Useful jQuery Utils
jQuery is a fantastic library but it needs to stay lean and small by providing only the most commonly need features. However there are many other little utilities that I have used frequently enough and found myself always rewriting them, … Continue reading
jQuery Plugin Development Boilerplate
The following is a great starting boilerplate template to use when creating a jQuery plugin. It contains all the major pieces you will need to build out and provide functionality for your plugins. I’ve used it to create many plugins … Continue reading
Building Collections Efficiently Using jQuery
One issue that is commonly faced in an AJAX based website is the building of a collection or list of items. The collection is dynamic meaning items can be added or removed and this is done so via AJAX calls. … Continue reading
12 Awesome jQuery Selector Extensions
I recently began writing my own jQuery selectors more and more as I realized it’s a very nice and clean way to accomplish some specific tasks that I may normally have used an iterator for. It’s one of those things … Continue reading