Category Archives: jQuery

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

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

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

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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jQuery Part 3: Advanced jQuery

Introduction
Welcome to the third and final installment of the jQuery saga.  This post will cover some of the more advanced features of jQuery such as Ajax, utility functions and plugins.  Along the way I will give examples that show how to use the functionality.  I suggest that you read through the first two parts of [...]

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jQuery Part 2: More jQuery Basics

Introduction
Welcome to the second part of my overview of jQuery. This article is part of a 3 part series. If you did not read the first article, you may want to go back and read that first. This article is going to pick up where the [...]

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jQuery Part 1: jQuery Basics

Introduction
Welcome to my first blog post on the topic of jQuery. This is the first part of a three part series. This post will cover most of the basic features of jQuery. The next post will wrap up the basic [...]

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Create an Animated Shine Effect with jQuery Part 1

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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