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| Following are few very useful jQuery Tips and Tricks for all jQuery developers. I am sharing these as I think they will be very useful to you.
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| Disclaimer: I have not written all of the below code but have collected from various sources from Internet.
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| 1. Optimize performance of complex selectors | | 1. Optimize performance of complex selectors |
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| Query a subset of the DOM when using complex selectors drastically improves performance:
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| 1 var subset = $("");
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| 2 $("input[value^='']", subset);
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| 2. Set Context and improve the performance | | 2. Set Context and improve the performance |
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| On the core jQuery function, specify the context parameter when. Specifying the context parameter allows jQuery to start from a deeper branch in the DOM, rather than from the DOM root. Given a large enough DOM, specifying the context parameter should translate to performance gains. | | On the core jQuery function, specify the context parameter when. Specifying the context parameter allows jQuery to start from a deeper branch in the DOM, rather than from the DOM root. Given a large enough DOM, specifying the context parameter should translate to performance gains. |
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| | $("input:radio", document.forms[0]); |
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| 1 $("input:radio", document.forms[0]);
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| 3. Live Event Handlers | | 3. Live Event Handlers |
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| Set an event handler for any element that matches a selector, even if it gets added to the DOM after the initial page load: | | Set an event handler for any element that matches a selector, even if it gets added to the DOM after the initial page load: |
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| | $('button.someClass').live('click', someFunction); |
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| 1 $('button.someClass').live('click', someFunction);
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| This allows you to load content via ajax, or add them via javascript and have the event handlers get set up properly for those elements automatically.
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| Likewise, to stop the live event handling:
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| 1 $('button.someClass').die('click', someFunction);
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| These live event handlers have a few limitations compared to regular events, but they work great for the majority of cases. Live event will work starting from jQuery 1.3
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| 4. Checking the Index
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| jQuery has .index but it is a pain to use as you need the list of elements and pass in the element you want the index of
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| 1 var index = e.g $('#ul>li').index( liDomObject );
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| The following is easier:
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| if you want to know the index of an element within a set, e.g. list items within a unordered list:
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| 1 $("ul > li").click(function ()
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| 3 var index = $(this).prevAll().length;
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| 4 });
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| 5. Use jQuery data method
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| jQuery’s data() method is useful and not well known. It allows you to bind data to DOM elements without modifying the DOM.
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| 6. Fadeout Slideup effect to remove an element
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| Combine more than one effects in jQuery to animate and remove an element from DOM.
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| 1 $("#myButton").click(function() {
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| 2 $("#myDiv").fadeTo("slow", 0.01, function(){ //fade
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| 3 $(this).slideUp("slow", function() { //slide up
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| 4 $(this).remove(); //then remove from the DOM
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| 5 });
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| 6 });
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| 7 });
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| 7. Checking if an element exists
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| Use following snippet to check whether an element exists or not.
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| 1 if ($("#someDiv").length) {
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| 2 //hooray!!! it exists...
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| 3 }
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| 8. Add dynamically created elements into the DOM
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| Use following code snippet to create a DIV dynamically and add it into the DOM.
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| Further Reading: Dynamically Add/Remove rows in HTML table using JavaScript
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| 1 var newDiv = $('<div></div>');
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| 2 newDiv.attr("id","myNewDiv").appendTo("body");
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| 9. Line breaks and chainability
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| Instead of doing:
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| 1 $("a").hide().addClass().fadeIn().hide();
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| You can increase readability like so:
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| 1 $("a")
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| 2 .hide()
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| 3 .addClass()
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| 4 .fadeIn()
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| 5 .hide();
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| 10. Creating custom selectors
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| 1 $.extend($.expr[':'], {
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| 2 over100pixels: function(a) {
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| 3 return $(a).height() > 100;
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| 4 }
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| 5 });
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| 7 $('.box:over100pixels').click(function() {
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| 8 alert('The element you clicked is over 100 pixels high');
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| 9 });
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| 11. Cloning an object in jQuery
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| Use .clone() method of jQuery to clone any DOM object in JavaScript.
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| 1 // Clone the DIV
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| 2 var cloned = $('#somediv').clone();
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| jQuery’s clone() method does not clone a JavaScript object. To clone JavaScript object, use following code.
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| 1 // Shallow copy
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| 2 var newObject = jQuery.extend({}, oldObject);
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| 4 // Deep copy
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| 5 var newObject = jQuery.extend(true, {}, oldObject);
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| 12. Test if something is hidden using jQuery
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| We use .hide(), .show() methods in jquery to change the visibility of an element. Use following code to check the whether an element is visible or not.
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| 1 if($(element).is(":visible") == "true") {
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| 2 //The element is Visible
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| 3 }
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| 13. Alternate way of Document Ready
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| 1 //Instead of
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| 2 $(document).ready(function() {
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| 3 //document ready
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| 4 });
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| 5 //Use
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| 6 $(function(){
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| 7 //document ready
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| 8 });
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| 14. Selecting an element with . (period) in its ID
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| Use backslash in the selector to select the element having period in its ID.
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| 1 $("#Address\\.Street").text("Enter this field");
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| 15. Counting immediate child elements
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| If you want to count all the DIVs present in the element #foo
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| 01 <div id="foo">
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| 02 <div id="bar"></div>
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| 03 <div id="baz">
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| 04 <div id="biz">
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| 05 </div>
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| 06 <span><span>
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| 07 </div>
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| 09 //jQuery code to count child elements
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| 10 $("#foo > div").size()
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| 16. Make an element to “FLASH”
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| 1 jQuery.fn.flash = function( color, duration )
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| 3 var current = this.css( 'color' );
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| 4 this.animate( { color: 'rgb(' + color + ')' }, duration / 2 );
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| 5 this.animate( { color: current }, duration / 2 );
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| 6 }
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| 7 //Then use the above function as:
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| 8 $( '#importantElement' ).flash( '255,0,0', 1000 );
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| 17. Center an element on the Screen
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| 1 jQuery.fn.center = function () {
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| 2 this.css("position","absolute");
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| 3 this.css("top", ( $(window).height() - this.height() ) / 2+$(window).scrollTop() + "px");
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| 4 this.css("left", ( $(window).width() - this.width() ) / 2+$(window).scrollLeft() + "px");
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| 5 return this;
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| 6 }
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| 8 //Use the above function as:
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| 9 $(element).center();
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| 18. Getting Parent DIV using closest
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| If you want to find the wrapping DIV element (regardless of the ID on that DIV) then you’ll want this jQuery selector:
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| 1 $("#searchBox").closest("div");
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| 19. Disable right-click contextual menu
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| There’s many Javascript snippets available to disable right-click contextual menu, but JQuery makes things a lot easier:
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| 1 $(document).ready(function(){
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| 2 $(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
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| 3 return false;
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| 4 });
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| 5 });
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| 20. Get mouse cursor x and y axis
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| This script will display the x and y value – the coordinate of the mouse pointer.
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| 1 $().mousemove(function(e){
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| 2 //display the x and y axis values inside the P element
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| 3 $('p').html("X Axis : " + e.pageX + " | Y Axis " + e.pageY);
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| 4 });
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| 6 <p></p>
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1. Optimize performance of complex selectors
var subset = $("");
$("input[value^=]", subset);
2. Set Context and improve the performance
On the core jQuery function, specify the context parameter when. Specifying the context parameter allows jQuery to start from a deeper branch in the DOM, rather than from the DOM root. Given a large enough DOM, specifying the context parameter should translate to performance gains.
$("input:radio", document.forms[0]);
3. Live Event Handlers
Set an event handler for any element that matches a selector, even if it gets added to the DOM after the initial page load:
$('button.someClass').live('click', someFunction);
