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Get Started with jQuery

ci_jquery — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:49:27 +0000

Unlike CodeIgniter, jQuery has no limit to the number of tutorials available to help you get started. Rather than making a comprehensive list, I’ve decided to make a quick list of what I consider to be the most valuable resources for getting your hands dirty with jQuery.

John Resig

Karl Swedberg

Building Your First jQuery Plug-ins

Using JSON in CodeIgniter with jQuery

ci_jquery — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:13:08 +0000

I just stumbled across a quick tutorial for those of you looking to integrate jQuery within your CodeIgniter projects. It’s a simple tutorial, but (as always) great to watch others code to learn new tips and tricks along the way.

What’s new in jQuery 1.4?

ci_jquery — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:30:41 +0000

With all of the excitement surrounding the latest release of jQuery, I thought I would highlight five new features that I am most excited about. Besides the restructuring of the core and the reduction of it’s size (no longer using YUI compressor, but the Google Closure Compiler instead…a 13% decrease in size!) and complexity, there are several new features that make this the most exciting release so far.

5 Great new Features in jQuery 1.4

All Events can now be Live Events (.live) - The magic that is the Live Event no longer has the restrictions the original release put upon it (except in the case of focus and blur, which should be replaced with focusin and focusout).
We can now unwrap as well as wrap (unwrap()) - This always felt like a given…and it’s great to finally have it.
Clean and easy attributes when creating elements (documentation) - Rather than creating a messy,endless string attributes, we can now combine them all into a clean new form.
New nextUntil, prevUntil and parentsUntil methods - Each of these methods traverses the DOM in the desired direction until the passed selector is satisfied…this is a great addition for form validation.
New .detach() method allows element removal with deleting data - This is great for complex application state changes in which you’d like to hold on to removed elements for later, rather than recreating them from scratch (the data saved includes information attached via .data() method as well).

For a more intense/in-depth overview of the new features, checkout Day 1 of the 14 Days of jQuery website.

jQuery Documentation

ci_jquery — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:23:21 +0000

Let’s get started by linking to the best resource that the main jQuery web site has to offer: the Official jQuery Documentation.

If you already use jQuery in your projects, you probably visit this on a daily basis (I have dedicated a bookmark to it in Safari). This will help you find examples of everything the latest release has to offer.

There is, of course, one down side to their official documentation…it’s a bit sloppy and can be a little slow from time-to-time. In an attempt to make the documentation a bit more accessible many sites, pdf, and iphone apps have been published to take the place of the official doc.

Here’s a comprehensive list of all the community has to offer: