Comments on: Some jQuery Shortcuts

By: SEO Man

SEO Man — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:08:53 +0000

Excellent article. Been looking for some info on reducing the size of my code and “Adding or changing attributes in bulk” works a treat.

By: Blair Mitchelmore

Blair Mitchelmore — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:45:35 +0000

Strictly speaking, self-closing elements don’t always work, primarily because jQuery uses the browser’s built in html parsing to save itself the work. So some browsers, ok basically just IE, will screw up certain elements if you use an empty or self-closing tag. I ran into that subtle bug a little while ago while debugging a bizarre error in IE (is there any other?).

By: James

James — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:12:20 +0000

Nice tip Ali! … Using the html() is pretty much the same as:

this.empty().append( value ) // Line 437 jQuery core.

Thanks Shane, yeh, Animate is great, I never bother using the built in fadeIn/fadeOut/slideDown etc. anymore, I like having more control.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:17:42 +0000

Good shortcuts.

animate does give you fantastic control over things, and chaining is essential! Cheers.

By: Ali7

Ali7 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:33:29 +0000

$(function(){...});

This is a very good one, taking the fact that this function is the most-used, your shortcut is very useful..

One other thing I’d like to add :
Using

$('div#foo').html()

directly instead of clearing and re-appending, especially for recurring Ajax-updated messages ..
Of course this is similar to old-school element.innerHTML approach.