jQuery Plugins

One of the things that makes jQuery so powerful is that it can be “easily” extended via a plugin. You have some experience with Plugins for Photoshop, or another application. But you’re probably wondering “how does this apply to something like jQuery, which is just software code?” Well, plugins are designed to extend the functionality…

jQuery Effects – Sliding Elements into/out of View

In addition to hiding and reveling HTML elements, jQuery allows you to move elements around on the screen, over a given duration. Vertically Appearing / Disappearing Movements jQuery provides two commonly used methods to vertically add/remove an HTML element. .slideUp() and .slideDown(). .slideUp() will cause an element to remove itself from view, but sliding up…

Using jQuery’s $.get and $.post to Load AJAX Data

There is a basic problem with jQuery’s .load() method. Namely, it places the results into a single element. What if we wanted to put multiple items into multiple HTML elements, or not necessarily display the returned results – rather storing the values in variables. Well jQuery provides several additional methods to load data, but the…