If you’re familiar with del.icio.us you will be familiar with the tag suggesting as-you-type support. The reason why, I believe, the tagging works so well within del.icio.us is that it helps you create a subset of tags that you commonly use for different types of links. This way, it makes it easier to find tagged [...]

During a conversion with John Resig at the FOWA he mentioned it would be useful to have a tutorial that explained what jQuery doesn’t do that Prototype does and visa versa, and in particular how X process is done in each library.

jQuery 1.2 introduced JSONP support, but on initial read of the release notes, I wasn’t completely sure what it was – so for anyone else that might want the Dr Seuss explanation. JSONP is script tag injection, passing the response from the server in to a user specified function

To follow on from Auto-populating Select Boxes using jQuery & AJAX, I’ve had more than a few requests for how to do this for multiple select boxes. In response, I’ve written a jQuery plugin and have included a simple example of three select boxes populating each other driven by a MySQL database.

I’ve started playing with Ext with jQuery, and although the tutorials on the Ext web site are superb, I found that I hit a few stumbling blocks – so I’ve written up the little gotchas.

More often that not, in my early dabbling with jQuery and more advanced JavaScript, I found I would constantly get confused over the meaning of “this” in jQuery and my own new libraries. Hopefully this quick guide can help clarify those confusing moments, because once you’ve got it, it’s simple as pie.

I’ve been hoarding a few plugins which I thought it was about time I did some sharing. They are: crop – crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only labelOver – based on an article over at A List Apart an accessible method of compressing forms pluck – return an array of values for [...]