jQuery 1.4 released

Posted by Frank - January 20, 2010 - For techies

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The latest and greatest version of jQuery, version 1.4, was released on January 14, the birthday of jQuery’s original launch. Bugfixes and improvements abound! The jQuery team has put together a site devoted to the new version, called the 14 days of jQuery, covering the major version changes as well as infrastructure updates coinciding with [...]

Change a select menu using jQuery

Posted by Frank - June 23, 2009 - For techies

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I don’t know why this is mind bending, but I seem to hit a wall every time I want to do page manipulations involving <select> boxes. Particularly, when I want to change the value selected. Based on the number of support posts I found, I’m clearly not alone. There are two common ways to change [...]

Using jQuery Alerts plugin to submit a form

Posted by Frank - June 2, 2009 - For techies

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jQuery is awesome. The jQuery Alerts plugin is also awesome. One of the most immediate and obvious uses of the pair is presenting a spiffy confirmation box before submitting a form. For example, I recently implemented this setup on a form that ultimately deletes data. I couldn’t find a detailed example for this setup, leading [...]

Using jQuery for DOM event attributes

Posted by Frank - May 10, 2008 - For techies

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My last post discussed my conversion to JavaScript frameworks, and why you should be one too. I explained that I settled on jQuery because it simplified how I write JavaScript without strictly locking me into a set of features and effects. A core part of this flexibility comes from jQuery’s document ready wrapper. It works [...]

Get a JavaScript framework. Now.

Posted by Frank - May 2, 2008 - For techies

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We’ve been really into jQuery at our office for the past few weeks, and I have to say that I am absolutely in love with it. Coming from the world of writing “classical” JavaScript in “long-hand” format, jQuery appears damn close to magic; I half-expect a mystical gnome to pop out of my monitor when [...]