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Extend the capabilities of JavaScript with the fast and feature-rich jQuery library. Learn everything you need to know from these helpful jQuery tutorials.

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  1. 14 Helpful jQuery Tricks, Notes, and Best Practices

    14 Helpful jQuery Tricks, Notes, and Best Practices

    Tutorial Intermediate

    If there is one bad thing about jQuery, it's that the entry level is so amazingly low, that it tends to attract those who haven't an ounce of JavaScript...

  2. Quick Tip: Making a Fancy WordPress Register Form from Scratch

    Quick Tip: Making a Fancy WordPress Register Form from Scratch

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of making a beautiful "Register" form, using Fancybox, jQuery, and, of course, WordPress. As you'll...

  3. How jQuery Beginners can Test and Improve their Code

    How jQuery Beginners can Test and Improve their Code

    Tutorial Beginner

    jQuery's arrival has made the process writing JavaScript laughably easy. But, you'll notice that making small changes to your code improves the readability...

  4. A jQuery UI and .Net Image Organizer

    A jQuery UI and .Net Image Organizer

    Tutorial Beginner

    Over the course of this tutorial we'll look at how to create a simple image organizer that lets users reorder a series of images; this functionality could be...

  5. Fun With Canvas: Create a Bar Graphing Plugin, Part 1

    Fun With Canvas: Create a Bar Graphing Plugin, Part 1

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this two-part series, we'll combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin. In this first part, we...

  6. Quick Tip: An Introduction to jQuery Templating

    Quick Tip: An Introduction to jQuery Templating

    Tutorial Intermediate

    JavaScript Templating is a neat idea: it allows you to easily convert JSON to HTML without having to parse it. At Microsoft's MIX10 conference, they...

  7. How to Use the jQuery UI Autocomplete Widget

    How to Use the jQuery UI Autocomplete Widget

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial we'll be looking at one of jQuery UI 1.8's newest components - the Autocomplete widget. Auto-completing text fields can be a popular choice...

  8. How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu

    How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu

    Tutorial Intermediate

    A couple weeks ago, I created a screencast that demonstrated how to build a three-level navigation menu. In a response email, one of our readers requested...

  9. Uncovering jQuery's Hidden Features

    Uncovering jQuery's Hidden Features

    Tutorial Intermediate

    jQuery is not always as it appears. There's a lot of cool stuff going on under the surface, and there are many methods just waiting to be discovered, and...

  10. How to Build and Enhance a 3-Level Navigation Menu

    How to Build and Enhance a 3-Level Navigation Menu

    Tutorial Beginner

    Perhaps more than any other topic, I'm most often contacted about how to build cross-browser navigation menus. Understandably, the reason is because every...

  11. Coding your First jQuery UI Plugin

    Coding your First jQuery UI Plugin

    Tutorial Intermediate

    jQuery contains the fn.extend() method, which makes authoring jQuery plugins quite easy, allowing us to write code that is used in exactly the same way as...

  12. jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program

    jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program

    Tutorial Intermediate

    A dash of animation can spruce up a dull interface. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do it the right way with jQuery.