Because jQuery uses CSS syntax for selecting elements, some characters are interpreted as CSS notation. In order to tell jQuery to treat these characters literally rather than as CSS notation, they must be escaped by placing two backslashes in front of them. See the Selector documentation for further details. 1 2 3 4 5 6 … Continue reading →

link Provide Public Access to Default Plugin SettingsAn improvement we can, and should, make to the code above is to expose the default plugin settings. This is important because it makes it very easy for plugin users to override/customize the plugin with minimal code. And this is where we begin to take advantage of the … Continue reading →

link Formatting ConventionsArticles in the learn site are authored with GitHub Flavored Markdown, and the beginning of each article contains some JSON “front matter” that contains metadata used when the article is published. link Article Header MetadataEach article should have the following header (see below as some metatags are optional): 1 2 3 4 5 … Continue reading →

Learning how and when to use jQuery is a different process for each and every web developer, depending largely on experience with the primary tools for front-end development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and knowledge of general programming principles. Over the years developers of all stripes have come to rely on our API documentation for help … Continue reading →