Category Archives: JavaScript

Calling an ASP.Net web service using jQuery and JSON.

By Karl Schwirz | January 29, 2012

Let’s say you have a webpage where you need to call a service but cannot perform a post back.  Recently I was on a client engagement where we needed to improve page performance by dynamically loading a navigation tree with a potential for several thousand links.  We implemented a solution that would load each branch [...]

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Overriding jQuery Functions

By Thomas Oscarson | January 18, 2012

In my last post I showed how to create a localized instance of jQuery that performed custom selection by handling ID selectors in a specific way. There are other parts of jQuery though that can have IDs passed in for arguments, such as the find and children functions. These functions can also be [...]

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Customizing the Default jQuery Selector Behavior

By Thomas Oscarson | January 17, 2012

jQuery on its own is a great JavaScript library that makes a lot of tasks simpler and easier.  Although as easy as it is you may find yourself needing to work within a restricted scope and not constantly wanting to have to include the context for every selector.  This exact case happened on our project. [...]

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Create an Animated Shine Effect with jQuery Part 1

By cdudley | January 23, 2009

jQuery is an amazing javascript framework that equips you with the tools to create beautiful effects extremely easily. While designing an add to cart notification for an online store I knew I needed to create something that caught the user’s eye to let him/her know that their product had been successfully added to their [...]

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