jQuery is the popular Open source JavaScript library that makes JavaScript development easy. The core functionality of the jQuery can be extended by using various plugins. Like jQuery, its plugins are also Open source and free to use. Various jQuery plugins can be used to add new features to the core jQuery library.
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Unified Event Handling API in jQuery – .live() Vs .on()

We have been reading about the unified event handling model that brings the event handling under two main methods, i.e. .on() and .off() methods. In the first post of the Unified Event Handling Series, we compared the .on() method with the .bind() method and saw how the .on() method replaces the .bind() method. In the Continue reading…
Unified Event Handling API in jQuery – .delegate() Vs .on()

JavaScript is an event driven language. Most part of the JavaScript code is event driven. The page load, the click of a button or a link, moving mouse cursor, everything is an event. So, handling of events is a very important topic and jQuery 1.7 has new methods to handle all the events in a Continue reading…
Unified Event Handling API in jQuery – .bind() Vs .on()

In the article about the new features in jQuery 1.7, we read about the new .on() event that replaces the .bind(), .live() and .delegate() events. jQuery had a strong Event Handling mechanism with a set of methods for handling various events. The number of these event handlers kept growing with each new release and the Continue reading…
DOM Insertion with jQuery – .prepend() and .prependTo() Methods

There are various options to insert new DOM elements using jQuery. In the first post of the DOM Insertion series, we read about .append() and .appendTo() methods. The two methods add the new DOM element as the last child of the DOM elements matched by jQuery filter. The two methods produce same results, but differ Continue reading…
How to select multiple DOM elements with jQuery

We had a series of articles explaining various ways of selecting the DOM elements with jQuery. We read about basic and hierarchical selectors, DOM filters and a special case of form filters. We saw an example of multiple selections in the post about the basic and hierarchical selectors. It is a very common requirement to Continue reading…
DOM Insertion with jQuery – .append() and .appendTo()

jQuery makes it really easy to add new stuff to existing DOM elements. There are various methods provided in jQuery to perform different types of insertions. The .append() is one such jQuery method that inserts the specified content to the end of each element in the set of elements matched by the jQuery filter. The Continue reading…
Custom Events in jQuery

JavaScript recognizes many DOM events. There are many standard JavaScript events that are supported in popular libraries like jQuery. By standard events, we mean the browser events, DOM events and page load events. The most common examples of such events are click and mouseover events.
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