jQuery Minute™ http://jqueryminute.com/blog "...a jQuery Minute™ later and you're done!" Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:50:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finding Immediately Adjacent Siblings Greetings! Here's a quick tip for advanced filtering of adjacent sibling nodes. Given the following HTML: <ul> <li>Item 1</li> <li class="hello">Item 2</li> <li class="hello" id="three">Item 3</li> <li class="hello">Item 4</li> <li>Item 5</li> <li class="hello">Item 6</li> </ul> If you needed to select the immediate siblings of #three that matched the class .hello (so the resulting element set would be Item 2, ... http://jqueryminute.com/blog/finding-immediately-adjacent-siblings/ Set Focus to the Next Input Field with jQuery Setting focus to input fields is easy enough with JavaScript: document.getElementById('theInputField').focus(); but sometimes you need a more generic solution as what happens when the next input field changes ID? I was recently faced with the problem of setting focus to the next input field. The challenge was that I didn't know ... http://jqueryminute.com/blog/set-focus-to-the-next-input-field-with-jquery/ jQuery as an Associative Array - Dynamically calling jQuery functions So how many times have you done the following: var elm = $('.selector'); if ( elm.hasClass('selectedElement') ) { elm.removeClass('abc'); } else { elm.addClass('abc'); } One alternative to the above example is to use jQuery's toggleClass() method, but toggleClass does exactly that, toggles the class without a way for us to know the current state. So now to the ... http://jqueryminute.com/blog/jquery-as-an-associative-array-dynamically-calling-jquery-functions/ jQuery 1.2.3 Released (Quietly!) I saw on this as part of the jQuery UI post on Ajaxian today, jQuery 1.2.3 was quietly released last night. jQuery UI Google Groups Post Here you go: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.min.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js http://jqueryminute.com/blog/jquery-123-released-quietly/ jQuery Iteration and each() There was a recent thread on the jQuery discussion group in that there was a need for looping through a series of elements and dynamically binding an event. An issue was brought up with closures and the arguments for dynamic binding of functions. Brandon Aaron provided an elegant solution that ... http://jqueryminute.com/blog/jquery-iteration-and-each/ JavaScript Pretty Date by John Resig Once again the JavaScript master is at it with "Pretty Date" to take the unfriendly "2008-01-28T20:24:17Z" and turn it into: "2 hours ago". Worth a look as it is short and sweet! http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-pretty-date/ http://jqueryminute.com/blog/javascript-pretty-date-by-john-resig/ jQuery parent() vs. parents() Welcome jQuery newbies! I'm writing a quick post here to help clarify some differences between the parent() and parents() methods. Given the following HTML: <html>...<body><div class="one"><div class="two"><p><span>Some text</span></p></div></div></body></html> $('span').parent() will select the <p> tag such that the element set in the jQuery object is [span]. $('span').parents() will select all parent tags such that the ... http://jqueryminute.com/blog/jquery-parent-vs-parents/ jQuery Calculate Plugin Dan G. Switzer, II wrote a plugin for easy calculation. It was recently brought up on the jQuery list (Google Groups | Nabble). Worth a look! http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/calculation.plugin.htm Update: Dan has posted a blog entry that covers use cases and some of it's innner workings in more detail, again worth a look! ... http://jqueryminute.com/blog/jquery-calculate-plugin/ Aspect Oriented Programming and jQuery - APO and JavaScript This was brought up on one of the jQuery lists a little while back. A solid implementation that is lean on code. Also worth noting is that while this uses the jQuery namespace, there isn't anything jQuery specific. Great project! http://code.google.com/p/jquery-aop/ http://jqueryminute.com/blog/aspect-oriented-programming-and-jquery-apo-and-javascript/ Performance Tuning Regular Expressions in JavaScript Doug D started a thread on the google groups jQuery developer list about a faster trim method he ran across and how counter intuitively it was better to run two expressions rather than one. Matt Kruse then provided a link to a great article on the subject: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/faster-trim-javascript The origional thread can be ... http://jqueryminute.com/blog/performance-tuning-regular-expressions-in-javascript/