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• How to make the back button accessible when using Ajax

  

  By sarahkim : 18 June 2010 - 01:07 PM

  Populating web pages using Ajax creates a convenient, interactive user experience, which can’t be replicated with traditional HTTP requests. Unfortunately, each time you update the contents of the b...

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  • back button
  • ajax

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• How to attach objects and data to DOM with jQuery.data to avoid memory leak issues

  

  By sarahkim : 17 June 2010 - 03:09 PM

  Properties added to an object or DOM node at runtime (called expandos) exhibit a number of issues because of flawed garbage collection implementations in some web browsers. This excerpt from jQuery Co...

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  • jquery
  • data
  • garbage collection
  • memory leak

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• How to initialize a jQuery UI plugin with custom options

  

  By sarahkim : 16 June 2010 - 03:36 PM

  This excerpt from jQuery Cookbook will show you how to use a jQuery UI plugin with options other than those selected by the plugin author to be the built-in defaults. Specify default option overrides ...

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  • jquery
  • plugin
  • UI

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• How to center an element within the viewport using jQuery

  

  By sarahkim : 16 June 2010 - 10:55 AM

  This excerpt from jQuery Cookbook will show you how to scroll the window to center an element within the viewport. Get the viewport's dimensions; determine the width, height, and offset of the el...

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  • jquery
  • viewport

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• How to cache your jQuery objects

  

  By sarahkim : 15 June 2010 - 02:15 PM

  Here is an example from the jQuery Cookbook that shows you have to cache your jQuery objects to improve performance. In this example you're logging the various properties of the event object for...

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  • jquery
  • caching
  • performance

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• How to filter arrays with jQuery.grep

  

  By sarahkim : 14 June 2010 - 12:36 PM

  This excerpt from jQuery Cookbook will show you how to filter and remove elements in an array using jQuery.grep. This solution uses the $.grep() method to filter the months array so that it onl...

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  • jquery
  • grep
  • array

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• How to determine the query that was used when writing a method that extends jQuery

  

  By sarahkim : 11 June 2010 - 03:07 PM

  If you're writing a plugin or a method that extends jQuery you may need to know the selection and the context used when calling the method so that the method can be recalled. This excerpt from jQu...

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  • jquery
  • plugin

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• How to reduce a jQuery selection set to a specified item

  

  By sarahkim : 11 June 2010 - 08:26 AM

  A jQuery selector is broad and selects all elements on the page based on your query. The need may rise when you need to select a single item, based on its position, but there isn't an easy way to ...

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  • selector
  • jquery
  • eq

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• How to use jQuery to select form elements by type (hidden, text, checkbox, etc.)

  

  By sarahkim : 10 June 2010 - 12:52 PM

  Learn how to use jQuery to select form elements by type (hidden, text, checkbox, etc.) in this excerpt from jQuery Cookbook. jQuery gives us a bunch of useful filters as shown in this table: jQuery...

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  • jquery
  • forms
  • select

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• How to style jQuery UI Widgets with ThemeRoller

  

  By adfm : 17 February 2010 - 05:33 PM

  Keep your design consistent when using jQuery UI widgets. In this excerpt from jQuery Cookbook the authors introduce the ThemeRoller web application. To have jQuery UI widgets used in your websit...

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  • ThemeRoller
  • widgets
  • jquery
  • UI
  • javascript

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