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jQuery lights off effect
September 12, 2011 · 1 min read
I’ve been working on a “lights off” effect for videos the other day. Here’s a demo page (with the appropriate code) that I might turn into a proper plugin if there is...
jQuery window.onload equivalent
August 1, 2011 · 1 min read
Last week a reader contacted me noting that my equal heights script was not working. When I took a closer look at his code, I found out that the reason for it...
Organizing jQuery Code
May 9, 2011 · 2 min read
Organizing jQuery code is not easy. Up to now, especially on small/medium scale projects, I used to have a huge jQuery ready function and place all my code there. Some times if...
Nwrapper jQuery plug in
March 28, 2011 · 1 min read
The plug in I wrote for wrapping every n amount of elements, is finally online at the official jQuery plug in repository. Have a look at the demo page and I’m looking...
Wrap any amount of elements with jQuery
February 24, 2011 · 2 min read
Update: Get the nwrapper plugin from the official jQuery plugins site. jQuery provides a large variety of functions for element manipulation, that in most cases will manipulate the selected elements in no...
How to create a bookmarklet
November 17, 2010 · 3 min read
A bookmarklet is a small Javascript program stored into a url. A user can bookmark the specific url, and execute the Javascript code on any page. The good news is that it’s...
A really simple "equal heights" method for jQuery!
September 29, 2010 · 1 min read
Nothing special, a really basic “equal heights” method written in jQuery. $.fn.equalHeights = function () { var maxHeight = 0; $(this).each(function (index) { var height =...
Convert a jQuery object to raw DOM object
July 6, 2010 · 1 min read
There are two, easy ways to achieve this. The first one is simply by using the array [] notation directly on the jQuery object: var myDiv = $("div")[0]; // myDiv is a...
Creating an element in jQuery 1.4
June 9, 2010 · 2 min read
Creating a new DOM element in jQuery is super easy. Just add the element of your choice into the jQuery “wrapper” and you’re ready! Really simple. This works like a charm for...
4 convenient jQuery tips
June 5, 2010 · 3 min read
I just read the last page of the jQuery Cookbook (great book by the way), and I’d like to present 4 very convenient jQuery tips I used to ignore. Better late than...