Tag Archives: jQuery
Even with a name only an engineer could come up with, querySelectorAll() is pretty awesome
One of the reasons I put up tutorials and code on this site is because if something is wrong, someone will let me know, usually within an hour or two of me posting it. I’m actually really happy with how … Continue reading
getElementsByClassName might not work the way you think it does
I think a large amount of web designers and developers are like me, they start out using jQuery and then move to coding more with pure JavaScript. I’m not saying one or the other is better, although I’ve come to … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about jQuery
The more and more that I work with JavaScript, the less and less I find myself using jQuery. And then I saw this tweet and it made realized that there are two types of jQuery users. There’s the designers and … Continue reading
Recreating Facebook’s “Introducing Timeline” page banner effect with jQuery
I think I have something in common with a lot of web developers out there and it’s when I see something cool or interesting on a web page, I need to figure out how it was done or at least … Continue reading
My extremely simple jQuery image slider
If there’s two things every web designer and developer knows it’s 1) There’s as many jQuery image sliders as there are stars and 2) Clients seem to think every web site needs one. And because there are so many out … Continue reading
Seriously easy jQuery preloader
One of my latest projects is a site with a ton of images and the images have to all load before some JavaScript can run and the site becomes usable. Coming from Flash, my first thought was to use a … Continue reading
Build an infinitely scrolling slider with jQuery and images that have various widths
One of the reasons for jQuery’s popularity is you it made it so you didn’t need to use Flash for a simple thing like an image slider on your web site. And, if there’s one thing you don’t have to … Continue reading
Find the height and width of an image with jQuery in all browsers
Today I came across one those little problems that show up when you’re building things to work in every browser. One a web page, I needed to know the width of an image and I couldn’t hard code it because … Continue reading
Why I’m going back and learning JavaScript from the beginning
Like a lot of web developers, the route I took to JavaScript development came by way of jQuery. jQuery did and still does the simple things for me and some complex things because it’s just faster. But eventually, I got … Continue reading
Don’t use jQuery to load your scripts if you aren’t using jQuery
I’ve been noticing a little trend over the last couple of months. Developers using jQuery to run a script that doesn’t actually have any jQuery in it, they just want to use the $(document).ready() to run the script when the … Continue reading