jQuery offers several ways to extend its event system to provide custom functionality when events are attached to elements. Internally in jQuery, these extensions are primarily used to ensure that standard events such as submit and change behave consistently across browsers. However, they can also be used to define new events with custom behavior. This … 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 IntroductionWeb pages are all about interaction. Users perform a countless number of actions such as moving their mice over the page, clicking on elements, and typing in textboxes — all of these are examples of events. In addition to these user events, there are a slew of others that occur, like when the page … Continue reading →

link Theming OverviewjQuery Mobile has a robust theme framework that supports up to 26 sets of toolbar, content, and button colors, called a "swatch". The framework comes with five defined themes (swatches "a" to "e") which can be used readily, removed, or overwritten. link Default Theme Swatch Mapping for ComponentsIf no theme swatch letter is … Continue reading →

Depending on your level of experience with some of the workflows common to many open source projects, e.g. git/GitHub, the command line, and setting up a local development environment, contributing to this site may be a breeze or come with a bit of a learning curve. If you fit into the former group, great! Jump … Continue reading →

To start, we'll create a progress bar that just lets us set the progress once. As we can see below, this is done by calling jQuery.widget() with two parameters: the name of the plugin to create, and an object literal containing functions to support our plugin. When our plugin gets called, it will create a … Continue reading →

link Further Deferreds examplesDeferreds are used behind the hood in Ajax but it doesn't mean they can't also be used elsewhere. This section describes situations where deferreds will help abstract away asynchronous behavior and decouple our code. link Cachinglink Asynchronous cacheWhen it comes to asynchronous tasks, caching can be a bit demanding since you have … Continue reading →

jQuery provides an object iterator utility called $.each() as well as a jQuery collection iterator: .each(). These are not interchangeable. In addition, there are a couple of helpful methods called $.map() and .map() that can shortcut one of our common iteration use cases. link $.each()$.each() is a generic iterator function for looping over object, arrays, … Continue reading →

link What is jQuery UI?jQuery UI is a widget and interaction library built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library that you can use to build highly interactive web applications. This guide is designed to get you up to speed on how jQuery UI works. Follow along below to get started. link Start by Checking … Continue reading →

While jQuery does offer many Ajax-related convenience methods, the core $.ajax() method is at the heart of all of them, and understanding it is imperative. We'll review it first, and then touch briefly on the convenience methods. It's often considered good practice to use the $.ajax() method over the jQuery provided convenience methods. As you'll … Continue reading →

link Can I Use This Browser Feature?There are a couple of common ways to check whether or not a particular feature is supported by a user's browser: Browser Detection Specific Feature Detection In general, we recommend specific feature detection. Let's look at why. link Browser DetectionBrowser detection is a method where the browser's User Agent … Continue reading →

link Writing Stateful Plugins with the jQuery UI Widget FactoryWhile most existing jQuery plugins are stateless – that is, we call them on an element and that is the extent of our interaction with the plugin – there's a large set of functionality that doesn't fit into the basic plugin pattern. In order to fill … Continue reading →

Proper use of Ajax-related jQuery methods requires understanding some key concepts first. link GET vs. POSTThe two most common "methods" for sending a request to a server are GET and POST. It's important to understand the proper application of each. The GET method should be used for non-destructive operations — that is, operations where you … 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 →

link jQuery: The BasicsThis is a basic tutorial, designed to help you get started using jQuery. If you don't have a test page setup yet, start by creating the following HTML page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 <!doctype html><html><head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Demo</title></head><body> <a href="http://jquery.com/">jQuery</a> … Continue reading →

link jQuery Event Basicslink Setting Up Event Responses on DOM ElementsjQuery makes it straightforward to set up event-driven responses on page elements. These events are often triggered by the end user's interaction with the page, such as when text is entered into a form element or the mouse pointer is moved. In some cases, such … Continue reading →

For complete documentation of jQuery manipulation methods, visit the Manipulation documentation on api.jquery.com. link Getting and Setting Information About ElementsThere are many ways to change an existing element. Among the most common tasks is changing the inner HTML or attribute of an element. jQuery offers simple, cross-browser methods for these sorts of manipulations. You can … Continue reading →

When creating new elements (or selecting existing ones), jQuery returns the elements in a collection. Many developers new to jQuery assume that this collection is an array. It has a zero-indexed sequence of DOM elements, some familiar array functions, and a .length property, after all. Actually, the jQuery object is more complicated than that. link … Continue reading →

jQuery UI contains many widgets that maintain state and therefore may have a slightly different usage pattern than typical jQuery plugins you are already used to. While the initialization is the same as most jQuery plugins, jQuery UI's widgets are built on top of the Widget Factory which provides the same general API to all … Continue reading →

When you move beyond adding simple enhancements to your website with jQuery and start developing full-blown client-side applications, you need to consider how to organize your code. In this chapter, we'll take a look at various code organization patterns you can use in your jQuery application and explore the RequireJS dependency management and build system. … Continue reading →