jQuery Tips

delay.js

// When you’re queuing up a chain of animations, you can use the delay()
// method to pause the animation  for a length of time; pass that time as
// a parameter in milliseconds.

$('div').hide().delay(2000).show(); // div will stay hidden for 2 seconds before showing.

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Useful Plugins

lightBox

fancyBox (free for non-commercial)

Flashembed

Interesting functions to keep in mind

wrap()

replaceAll()

map()

grep()

get()

after() and before()

pseudo-selectors.js

$(':animated');     // returns all elements currently animating
$(':contains(me)'); // returns all elements with the text 'me'
$(':empty');        // returns all elements with no child nodes or text
$(':parent');       // returns all elements with child nodes or text
$('li:even');       // returns all even-index elements (in this case, <li>s)
$('li:odd');        // can you guess?
$(':header');       // returns all h1 - h6s.
$('li:gt(4)');      // returns all elements with an (zero-based) index greater than the given number
$('li:lt(4)');      // returns all element with an index less than the given number
$(':only-child');   // returns all . . . well, it should be obvious