jQuery Minute™

Merry Christmas to you all! I am on holiday until after New Years, so I won’t be posting any new tips!

If you have a tip or news item that you want to share on jQuery minute, please drop me a line at tip-time at the jqueryminute domain dot com.

Cheers!
-Jonathan

Here’s a solution for selecting elements by ID and running a regex to filter the results:

$(‘*[@id]‘).filter(function() {
var regex = /^regularExpressionToMatchIdsAgainst/;
return ( $(this).attr(‘id’).match(regex) !== null );
})

Remy Sharp (no relation) has launched jQuery For Designers. Be sure to check it out and start participating!

http://jqueryfordesigners.com/

As from the jquery-dev google groups, jQuery 1.2.2 is in beta stage:

John Resig’s Beta Release Post -
Get jQuery 1.2.2b.js

Be sure to read John’s Post about how to test and submitting bugs!

This recently came up again on the jquery-en Google Groups list, here’s a way that you can namespace your plugin.

http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-passing-this-p13540912s27240.html

If you have to add or remove multiple classes with jQuery, the most efficient way is to separate the classes with a space and make one call.

Such as:

1

$('body').addClass('abc def');

As opposed to:

1

$('body').addClass('abc').addClass('def');

Picked up from the jquery-en Google Groups, here is a Windows CHM Help file version of the jQuery documentation.

http://charupload.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/jquery-documentation-chm/

Here’s a solution for calculating the brower’s scrollbar width. Tested in Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Firefox 1.5+ and Safari.

Calculate Brower’s Scrollbar Width

Greetings, I’m Jonathan Sharp and first coined the term “jQuery Minute” in this discussion thread on the Google Groups mailing list. jQuery Minute refers to how easy jQuery makes JavaScript for your web development tasks.

This site is aimed at providing quick tid-bits of code and “hidden” features of the jQuery library as well as highlight some neat plugin’s and uses of jQuery.