CodeMirror is an on the fly syntax highlighting engine, written in Javascript. Like CodePress (the syntax highlighter used in the latest version of wordpress for editing plugins), it can highlight many different languages (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS to name a…
We traditionally think that jQuery’s selector engine can only select elements/information off of the document that we are working on. And AJAX’s only use is to process web forms without the page needing to reload. While both of these are…
As we all know jQuery is a very small language. Not only is the file size of the jQuery library small, but the amount of code you need to write to achieve something is also very small. Because of this…
This is part 2 of a 2 part series on making a Todo List with PHP and enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX
In part 1 of the tutorial, we covered the PHP and MySQL side of things. In this part…
This is part 1 of a 2 part series on making a Todo List with PHP and enhancing it with jQuery’s AJAX
In this two part series I’m going to show you how to make a simple to-do list in…
In an attempt to sharpen up my jQuery, i purchased the book jQuery in Action
by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz. Reading through the book, i could see that the first few chapters were obviously aimed at beginners. They…
With the arrival of jQuery UI 1.5 i was browsing its’ wiki pages and learning all of the API. I came across the jQuery UI wiki page, its essentially more jQuery effects except these ones are alot more dynamic! You…
For those of you with no jQuery background what-so-ever, jQuery UI is a series of user interface (UI) enhancements made in Javascript. These range from tabs (which also support ajax loading), to dialog boxes which you can drag, drop and…
“Whats a good jQuery menu?” is a question I hear quite frequently on blogs and forums. As jQuery is such a simple language to learn, most people code their own for their own sites. I’ve compiled a list of 3…
We all know that jQuery is great, that you can do things in 2-3 lines in jQuery that you can in 20 lines of Javascript, but is your jQuery code starting to get a bit bulky? Could you do things…