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Posted on Tuesday, 10th June 2008 by Shaun Kester

I’ve played with a lot of jQuery demos lately and the stuff that people are coming out with is just awesome.
Check these two out:
Toaster

Slider

Don’t forget that jQuery UI 1.5 is out now with themes support and that the latest jQuery (1.2.6) is getting rave reviews for speed and stability.

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Posted on Thursday, 29th May 2008 by Shaun Kester

Here is my current list of must have jQuery plugins as of May 2008. I don’t start a project without the latest version of these plugins in my javascript directory.

Forms
Mike Alsup has created a must have here with his forms plugin. Ajax-ified forms at their easiest.
File Tree
A very pretty file tree that was super easy [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 13th May 2008 by Shaun Kester

Sean Catchpole recently updated his idTabs plugin. I wrote about version 1 some time ago, but haven’t really looked at it since. Come to think of it, I should have subscribed to his RSS feed…done.
As jQuery.UI is still in beta and the tabs demo is broken, I didn’t want to jump into that yet (Rick [...]

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Posted on Monday, 28th April 2008 by Shaun Kester

Rick Strahl has been doing some great posts about jQuery on his blog. Yesterday he posted about an excellent resource, ajaxload.info, for creating ajax activity indicators. The second jQuery example that I’d like to share concerns how to display those images on each ajax call. Here is the relevant jQuery code:

The first two jQuery snippets [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 17th April 2008 by Shaun Kester

I’m working on putting some of my most often used jQuery snippets onto SKFox.com. Here is my first such attempt. Table striping makes data easier to read and jQuery has some great selectors for this.
$(”table.zebra thead > tr:first-child()”).addClass(”zSelected”);
$(”table.zebra tbody > tr:nth-child(odd)”).addClass(”zOdd”);
$(”table.zebra tbody > tr:nth-child(even)”).addClass(”zEven”);

Be sure to check out the table striping demo page and [...]

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