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Local jQuery UI team member Richard D. Worth has kicked off a couple of local jQuery meetup groups in our area, so if you enjoy working with jQuery, and want to spend some time with your peers, either learning more, or sharing what you know (or both),
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Thanks to all the folks who came out last night for my Intro to jQuery presentation last night at Charlottesville .NET. Apart from the whole getting lost thanks to my GPS refusing to acknowledge the new location of the group, I had a great time. As promised,
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You can use jQuery to trigger a button click from the client. In this certain situation, I needed to make sure the button was not disabled prior to clicking. In jQuery you can use the “is” function to check if the button is disabled like this:
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Today reading on idunno.org about Microsoft AJAX CDN, something I was thinking about a bit, too: Scott “Red Shirt” Guthrie announced today that the jQuery and the Microsoft AJAX scripts would be hosted on the Microsoft content delivery network (CDN) –
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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are
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In the previous posts, we’ve met several helper methods which simplify the code needed to perform remote out-of-band requests. In this post, we’ll be introducing the all mighty $.ajax method. This method is used by all the other methods we’ve seen until
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Deferred script loading is a technique which can be used to reduce the initial loading time of any page. The idea is to load only the basic JavaScript code that is necessary for the initial loading operations of the page and then perform additional downloads
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In the previous post , we’ve met the $.get and $.post methods. At the time, we’ve seen how we could easily load a JSON payload returned from the server. If you know that you’ll be getting JSON and that the request will be an HTTP GET, then you can use
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In this post we’ll keep looking at JQuery ’s helper methods for remote calls and we’ll see how we can use the get and post functions for performing HTTP GET and POST requests. Both functions (notice that these are utility functions and not JQuery object
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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are
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Today marks the beginning of using JQuery for handling AJAX requests. This is going to be a short post and we’ll be talking about the load method. The load method is able to perform get or post requests to replace the contents of the elements contained
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In the previous posts , we’ve met several methods which run some predefined animations. Instead of trying to add methods for all possible animations, JQuery has decided to introduce a helper function which you can reuse for animating several css properties
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In this post, we’ll take a look at the JQuery methods used for sliding animations. We’ve got 3 methods for executing sliding animations: slideDown: shows all the hidden elements contained in the wrapped set of the JQuery object. slideUp: hides all visible
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In this post we’ll keep looking at the animations and we’ll see how to add fading effects to an element. Unlike showing and hiding, which affect several css properties of the element, fading will only affect the opacity (alpha filters if you’re running
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JQuery offers support for basic effects, like showing, hiding, fading and sliding. Besides that, it also facilitates the construction of new animations by introducing some custom methods which you can reuse to produce some basic animations. Today we’ll
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