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The jQuery Autocomplete plugin got a successor recently, the jQuery UI Autocomplete. In this guide we’ll look at the old plugin API step-by-step, and how to migrate to the new API.
At first it may look like the new plugin supports barely any of the old options. We’ll see how all the old options can be [...]

The jQuery UI 1.8 release brings along the new autocomplete widget. An autocomplete adds a list of suggestions to an input field, displayed and filtered while the user is typing. This could be attached to a search field, suggesting either search terms or just matching results for faster navigation. But what if there is a [...]

Thinking of producing a cool 3D model or animation? It could be a simple task [...]
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Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. Its main purpose is [...]
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Editor’s Note: When I started this blog nearly three years ago, one of the first things I did was write a series on showing and hiding elements on a page. The posts were very basic, as was my knowledge at the time. At best, they demonstrated an incomplete answer to the question of how to [...]

Someone on the jQuery Google Group yesterday asked about how to display a border around elements on hover. Here is a quick script I wrote to achieve that effect:
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PLAIN TEXTJavaScript:
$(document).ready(function() {
  $(’.entrytext’)
    .mouseover(function(event) {
      $(event. [...]
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In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a navigation menu that slides horizontally. It begins with a set of “tabs” on the right side of a containing element. When clicked, a tab slides to the left to reveal a group of links. Click the tab again, and it slides back. While I’ve never [...]

There are many, many jQuery tooltip plugins out there, and some of them are very good. But when someone on the jQuery Google Group asked (a year ago) which plugin could handle displaying tooltips for 2,000 links on a page, I wasn’t able to find one. So, I decided to throw together a quick little [...]

Event delegation, as described in the first article of this series, is a way to take advantage
of event bubbling to avoid binding an event listener more than once. jQuery 1.3 and the upcoming jQuery 1.4
have many features that make using event delegation in your web pages easier.
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In my last two tutorials, I explained how to use event delegation for showing and hiding tooltips. In a comment on the first one, Jan Aagaard asked how we might go about enhancing the script by adding a small delay before showing a tooltip. The answer lies with two JavaScript functions, setTimeout() and clearTimeout().
Setting [...]