There are a ton of jQuery selectors to get at just about any data imaginable on a page. Between actual selectors (such as ID and attribute selectors) and pseudo-selectors (such as :first and :checked), the bulk of HTML element selection is trivial. There are, however, a few selectors I’ve had a need for but aren’t [...]
There have been a distinct lack of updates recently on FerretArmy.com – chock it up to having to do a lot of work-induced overtime over the past few months. Either way, in order to usher in some fresher content, I’ve updated my Image Overlay plugin to version 1.3. Changes are that you no longer need [...]
I just found this preview of jQuery 1.4. I read some of this stuff at the jQuery site, but this is a nice explanation of the proposed functionality of the next major version of jQuery. I think the new ‘live’ event handlers are going to be great. I can’t stress how much the ‘live’ method [...]
I’ve just released my latest plugin, the jQuery UI Image Carousel! The plugin is a standard-fare image carousel, and it’s also fully compatible with jQuery UI. It’s got a few options that make it fairly versatile – from a minimal look all the way to a collapsible version with a custom header. The JavaScript itself [...]
Most of the time when you want to cancel an action on a web page, such as a button click, you’d return false in the client-side button event handler, as such: <a href=”blah…” onclick=”return DoAction();”>Link</a> … function DoAction() { /*Do Something */ return false; }; However, there’s a better way, using the event.preventDefault() method. I [...]
I’ve updated my image overlay plugin yet again, to version 1.2. Again, it was a fairly minor enhancement – I added the ability to turn off the animation via an option. The translucent image overlay effect is popping up all over the web nowadays, and I want to make sure that my plugin implementation offers [...]
A quick note – I’ve updated my jQuery Image Overlay Plugin to version 1.1. This version adds support for pinning the overlay so it is always viewable (not just when you mouse over the image). There were no other changes, so you should be able to upgrade without worry.
I’ve created my first jQuery plugin this week – it’s an image overlay plugin (the static pic above doesn’t do the plugin justice, so click through to see it in action). Creating a jQuery plugin isn’t that big a stretch for a competent JavaScript developer. There are quite a few tutorials out there where you [...]
I created a new version of my particle demo using the HTML5 <canvas>. This version is full screen, inspired by this amazing canvas demo at Iteration Six. I’d seen their demo prior to my starting to tinker with the canvas tag, but I never really tore it apart and looked inside. From what it appears, [...]
Here’s a cool particle demonstration of the HTML5 <canvas> tag. It’s a tremendously small amount of JavaScript code that is responsible for pushing some radial gradient particles around a canvas. You can check out the source code to see how things are done – it uses jQuery a bit and the demo itself uses a [...]
