As some of you know I have recently been read Learning jQuery 1.3 Book from Packt Publishing and will be posting an in depth review of the content from start to finish very soon, so stay tuned!
I realize that jQuery 1.4 is already out and the Buzz around it is pretty high – however, if [...]

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Welcome back to part 3 of Adding Flair to your Actions with jQuery! If you missed Part 2, go ahead and read that first, or just move ahead!
Simultaneous versus queued effects
The .animate() method, as we’ve just discovered, is very useful for creating simultaneous effects in a particular set of elements. There may be [...]

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Welcome back to part 2 of Adding Flair to your Actions with jQuery! If you missed Part 1, go ahead and read that first, or just move ahead!
Basic hide and show
The basic .hide() and .show() methods, without any parameters, can be thought of as smart shorthand methods for .css(‘display’,’string’) , where ’string’ [...]

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How to Add Flair to your Actions with jQuery
If actions speak louder than words, then in the JavaScript world, effects make actions speak louder still. With jQuery, we can easily add impact to our actions through a set of simple visual effects, and even craft our own, more sophisticated animations .
jQuery effects certainly [...]

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So the other day a client requested that when a visitor leaves any page on the site, they be greeted by an alert (such as ‘alert(‘this is your alert’);’) and if they click ‘Cancel’ they then go to an alternate ‘Exit Pop’ page that acts as a last ditch effort page to salvage a sale, [...]

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