Category: Tutorials
jQuery - it’s a popular, high-performance and compact JavaScript library/framework. jQuery will allow you to reduce the amount of code you have to write for dealing with browser quirks, memory leaks, and repetitive code by providing you with a set of useful and highly-optimized and thoroughly-tested functions and methods.
100 Useful jQuery Techniques
Modal Windows
In this jQuery tutorial, you’ll discover a technique for creating a slick modal window that appears when the user clicks on the triggering element (in this case, form submit input, but you can easily modify it into other HTML elements like <a>). The tutorial will also show you how you can deal with keypress events so that you can incorporate keyboard shortcuts into your interface.
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This modal window tutorial uses a rel attribute to indicate whether a link opens a modal window using inline content. You’ll witness a few popular jQuery methods in action like the .click() and .css() methods.
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This jQuery tutorial discusses a method for creating a modal window that builds in graceful degradation in its design for users who don’t have JavaScript turned on.
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Tool Tips
This tutorial will show you a method for replacing the built-in browser tooltips that appear on elements such as images and links with title attributes.
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This tooltip technique will check whether a link has a title attribute or not, and if it doesn’t, it skips it title.
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This excellent jQuery tutorial shows you how to create slick popup bubbles that appear when hovering over the target object.
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Module Tabs
This simple tutorial will show you how to create a set a module tab interface that slides content left and right as you click on the tabs.
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This very detailed step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create a tabbed interface using jQuery.
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This excellent tutorial is yet another variation to the popular tabbed interface.
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This tutorial is in screencast format and is aimed at beginners and designers.
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Showcasing Images
This image gallery tutorial shows you an interesting interaction technique for having captions that slide up to reveal more information about a particular image when the user hovers over it.
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This tutorial will show you how to fade another image in, superimposing onto the current image when the user hovers it. It can be a great way to display more information about a particular image.
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Create a basic image gallery by leveraging the strengths of jQuery in traversing the DOM and in DOM manipulation.
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This quick and easy tutorial shows you the concept of hiding and showing elements by watching out for window events (in this instance - mouse hovers).
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This jQuery tutorial shows you a slick and animated method for enlarging thumbnail-sized photos when the user hovers on them.
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In this jQuery tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a sliding gallery that leans on jQuery UI to make dealing with theming the web component a breeze.
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the concept of tweaking opacity of elements, as well as using the setInterval function to delay the firing off of another function.
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This screencast tutorial shows you how to zoom in and out of an image and reveal a module tab interface when the user hovers of it. The tutorial was inspired the BBC Radio 1 site which shows a similar effect.
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This tutorial shows you how easy it is to implement the Photo Slider JS library to create a stunning but user-friendly sliding photo gallery.
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Interacting with Content / Displaying Content
In this jQuery tutorial, you’ll discover a method for creating a gallery of images that can be filtered by categories.
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This screencast-format tutorial will show you how you can create a news scroller to display dynamic news feed connected to an RSS feed. This tutorial also uses PHP andSimplePie to interface with RSS feeds.
Resizing text on a web page is often a valuable site feature to help adjust the text within the web page instead of using the browsers’ features. This tutorial goes over a method for being able to resize text with jQuery that will work regardless of what font size units you use (i.e. px, em, %).
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This tutorial leverages DOM manipulation to create a jQuery script that will replace your unordered (<ul>) and ordered (<ol>) lists into something fancier. The script you’ll learn to write in this tutorial gracefully degrades in the JavaScript off scenario.
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