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jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide

A comprehensive exploration of the popular

JavaScript library

Karl Swedberg
Jonathan Chaffer

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide

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 About the Authors

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Fusionary Media in Grand Rapids,

Michigan, where he spends much of his time solving problems with JavaScript
and implementing design. A member of the jQuery Project Team and an active
contributor to the jQuery discussion list, Karl has presented at workshops and
conferences, and provided corporate training in Europe and North America.

Before he got hooked on to web development, Karl worked as a copy editor,

a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. He gave up his dream of
becoming a professional musician in the early 1990s about the same time that he
stumbled into a job at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. He sold his hollow-body
Rickenbacker ages ago, but still keeps an acoustic guitar in the basement.

I wish to thank my wife, Sara, for keeping me sane. Thanks also to

my two delightful children, Benjamin and Lucia. Jonathan Chaffer
has my deepest respect for his programming expertise and my
gratitude for his willingness to write this book with me.

Many thanks to John Resig for creating the world's greatest

JavaScript library and for fostering an amazing community around
it. Thanks also to the folks at Packt Publishing, the technical
reviewers of this book, the jQuery Cabal, and the many others who
have provided help and inspiration along the way.
Jonathan Chaffer is a member of Rapid Development Group, a web development
firm located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work there includes overseeing and
implementing projects in a wide variety of technologies, with an emphasis on PHP,
MySQL, and JavaScript.

In the open source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS
project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the
creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured
content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu
system and developer API reference.

Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

I would like to thank Jenny for her tireless enthusiasm and support,
Karl for the motivation to continue writing when the spirit was
weak, and the Ars Technica community for constant inspiration
toward technical excellence.
 About the Reviewers

Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, and the author of a number

of books on .NET and its related technologies. He has over 12 years of industry
experience in IT with more than 6 years in Microsoft .NET and its related
technologies. He has authored a lot of articles for some of the most reputable sites
such as www.asptoday.com, www.devx.com, www.aspalliance.com,
www.aspnetpro.com, www.mcpressonline.com, www.sql-server-performance.
com, www.sswug.com, and so on. A lot of these articles have been selected at
www.asp.net—Microsoft's official site on ASP.NET. Joydip was also a community
credit winner at www.community-credit.com a number of times. Joydip was also
selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight in November and December,
2008. Joydip has authored the following books:

• ASP.NET 4.0 Programming (Mc-Graw Hill Publishing)

• Entity Framework Tutorial (Packt Publishing)
• Pro Sync Framework (APRESS)
• Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing)
• ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials (Packt Publishing)

He is currently working as an independent software consultant and author. He has

years of experience in designing and architecting solutions for various domains. His
technical strengths include C, C++, VC++, Java, C#, Microsoft .NET, AJAX, Design
Patterns, SQL Server, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture. Joydip blogs
at http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joydip and spends his time reading books,
blogs, and writing books and articles. His hobbies include watching cricket, soccer,
and playing chess.
Dave Methvin is the Chief Technology Officer at PC Pitstop and one of the
founding partners of the company. He provides technical direction for the PCPitstop.
com (http://www.pcpitstop.com/) web site and oversees software development.

Before joining PC Pitstop, Dave had an extensive career in computer journalism.

He served as an Executive Editor at both Windows Magazine and PC Tech Journal,
co-authored a book on Windows NT networking, and wrote articles for more than
two dozen publications. Dave blogs on Windows issues for the InformationWeek
(http://www.informationweek.com) web site.

Dave holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Computer Science from the
University of Virginia. He has been active in the jQuery community since 2006 and
has written several popular plug-ins such as Splitter.
 Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Anatomy of a jQuery Script 7
A dynamic table of contents 7
Obtaining jQuery 8
Setting up the HTML document 9
Writing the jQuery code 11
Script dissection 12
Selector expressions 12
DOM traversal methods 13
DOM manipulation methods 13
Event methods 14
Effect methods 14
AJAX methods 15
Miscellaneous methods 15
Plug-in API 16
Summary 16
Chapter 2: Selector Expressions 17
CSS selectors 17
Element (T) 17
ID (#myid) 18
Class (.myclass) 18
Descendant (E F) 19
Child (E > F) 20
Adjacent sibling (E + F) 20
General sibling (E ~ F) 21
Multiple expressions (E, F, G) 22
Numbered child (:nth-child(n/even/odd/expr)) 22
First child (:first-child) 24
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Last child (:last-child) 24

Only child (:only-child) 25
Not (:not(E)) 25
Empty (:empty) 25
Universal (*) 26
Attribute selectors 26
Attribute ([foo]) 27
Attribute equals ([foo=bar]) 27
Attribute does not equal ([foo!=bar]) 27
Attribute begins with ([foo^=bar]) 28
Attribute ends with ([foo$=bar]) 28
Attribute contains ([foo*=bar]) 28
Attribute contains word ([foo~=bar]) 29
Attribute contains prefix ([foo|=bar]) 29
Form selectors 30
Custom selectors 31
Element at index (:eq(n)) 31
Greater than (:gt(n)) 32
Less than (:lt(n)) 32
First (:first) 32
Last (:last) 33
Even element (:even) 33
Odd element (:odd) 34
Is parent (:parent) 34
Contains text (:contains(text)) 35
Contains element (:has(E)) 35
Visible (:visible) 36
Hidden (:hidden) 37
Header element (:header) 37
Currently animating (:animated) 37
Chapter 3: DOM Traversal Methods 39
The jQuery function 39
$() 39
Filtering methods 42
.filter() 42
.not() 44
.has() 46
.eq() 47
.first() 48
.last() 49

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.slice() 49
Tree traversal methods 51
.find() 51
.children() 52
.parents() 53
.parentsUntil() 55
.parent() 56
.closest() 57
.offsetParent() 59
.siblings() 60
.prev() 61
.prevAll() 62
.prevUntil() 63
.next() 64
.nextAll() 65
.nextUntil() 66
Miscellaneous traversal methods 68
.add() 68
.is() 69
.end() 70
.andSelf() 72
.map() 73
.contents() 74
Chapter 4: DOM Manipulation Methods 77
General attributes 77
.attr() (getter) 77
.attr() (setter) 78
.removeAttr() 80
Style properties 80
.css() (getter) 80
.css() (setter) 81
.height() (getter) 82
.height() (setter) 83
.innerHeight() 84
.outerHeight() 84
.width() (getter) 85
.width() (setter) 86
.innerWidth() 87
.outerWidth() 87
.offset() (getter) 88

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.offset() (setter) 89
.position() 89
.scrollTop() (getter) 90
.scrollTop() (setter) 90
.scrollLeft() (getter) 91
.scrollLeft() (setter) 91
Class attributes 91
.hasClass() 92
.addClass() 92
.removeClass() 93
.toggleClass() 95
DOM replacement 96
.html() (getter) 97
.html() (setter) 97
.text() (getter) 98
.text() (setter) 99
.val() (getter) 101
.val() (setter) 101
.replaceWith() 102
.replaceAll() 103
DOM insertion, inside 104
.prepend() 104
.prependTo() 106
.append() 108
.appendTo() 109
DOM insertion, outside 111
.before() 111
.insertBefore() 112
.after() 114
.insertAfter() 115
DOM insertion, around 117
.wrap() 117
.wrapAll() 118
.wrapInner() 119
DOM copying 121
.clone() 121
DOM removal 122
.empty() 122
.remove() 123
.detach() 125
.unwrap() 125
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Chapter 5: Event Methods 127

Event handler attachment 127
.bind() 127
.unbind() 131
.one() 134
.trigger() 135
.triggerHandler() 136
.live() 137
.die() 139
Document loading 140
.ready() 140
.load() 141
.unload() 143
.error() 144
Mouse events 144
.mousedown() 145
.mouseup() 146
.click() 148
.dblclick() 149
.toggle() 151
.mouseover() 152
.mouseout() 154
.mouseenter() 156
.mouseleave() 157
.hover() 159
.mousemove() 160
Form events 162
.focus() 162
.blur() 163
.change() 165
.select() 166
.submit() 167
Keyboard events 169
.keydown() 169
.keypress() 171
.keyup() 172
Browser events 174
.resize() 174
.scroll() 175

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Chapter 6: Effect Methods 177

Pre-packaged effects 177
.show() 177
.hide() 179
.toggle() 181
.slideDown() 184
.slideUp() 185
.slideToggle() 186
.fadeIn() 189
.fadeOut() 190
.fadeTo() 192
Customized effects 193
.animate() 193
.stop() 198
.delay() 199
.queue() 200
.dequeue() 201
.clearQueue() 202
Chapter 7: AJAX Methods 203
Low-level interface 203
$.ajax() 203
$.ajaxSetup() 209
Shorthand methods 210
$.get() 210
.load() 211
$.post() 212
$.getJSON() 213
$.getScript() 214
Global AJAX event handlers 215
.ajaxComplete() 215
.ajaxError() 217
.ajaxSend() 218
.ajaxStart() 219
.ajaxStop() 220
.ajaxSuccess() 221
Helper functions 223
.serialize() 223
.serializeArray() 224

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Chapter 8: Miscellaneous Methods 227

Setup methods 227
$.noConflict() 227
DOM element methods 228
.size() 228
.get() 229
.index() 230
Collection manipulation 232
.each() 232
$.grep() 234
$.makeArray() 235
$.inArray() 236
$.map() 237
$.merge() 239
$.unique() 240
$.extend() 240
$.trim() 242
$.param() 243
Introspection 244
$.isArray() 244
$.isFunction() 245
$.isPlainObject() 245
$.isEmptyObject() 245
$.isXMLDoc() 246
Data storage 246
.data() 246
.removeData() 248
Chapter 9: jQuery Properties 249
Global properties 249
$.browser 249
$.support 250
$.support.boxModel 250
$.support.cssFloat 251
$.support.hrefNormalized 251
$.support.htmlSerialize 251
$.support.leadingWhitespace 251
$.support.noCloneEvent 251
$.support.objectAll 251
$.support.opacity 252
$.support.scriptEval 252
$.support.style 252
$.support.tbody 252

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jQuery object properties 252

.length 252
.selector 253
.context 254
Chapter 10: The Plug-in API 255
Using a plug-in 255
Developing a plug-in 256
Object method 256
Global function 258
Selector expression 261
Plug-in conventions 262
Use of the $ alias 262
Naming conventions 263
API standardization 263
Chapter 11: Alphabetical Quick Reference 265
Selector expressions 265
Methods 268
Properties 281
Appendix A: Online Resources 283
jQuery documentation 283
JavaScript reference 284
JavaScript code compressors 285
JavaScript code decompressors 286
(X)HTML reference 286
CSS reference 287
Useful blogs 287
Web development frameworks using jQuery 289
Appendix B: Development Tools 291
Tools for Firefox 291
Tools for Internet Explorer 292
Tools for Safari 293
Tools for Opera 294
Other tools 294
Index 297

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 Preface
jQuery is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, JavaScript library that helps web developers
and designers add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out
browser inconsistencies and greatly reducing development time. In jQuery 1.4
Reference Guide, you can investigate this library's features in a thorough,
accessible format.

This book offers an organized menu of every jQuery method, function, and selector.
Entries are accompanied by detailed descriptions and helpful recipes that will assist
you in getting the most out of jQuery, and avoiding the pitfalls commonly associated
with JavaScript and other client-side languages. If you're still hungry for more, the
book shows you how to cook up your own extensions with jQuery's elegant
plug-in architecture.

You'll discover the untapped possibilities that jQuery makes available and hone
your skills as you return to this guide time and again.

What this book covers

In Chapter 1, Anatomy of a jQuery Script, we'll begin by dissecting a working jQuery
example. This script will serve as a roadmap for this book, directing you to the
chapters containing more information on particular jQuery capabilities.

The heart of the book is a set of reference chapters, which allow you to quickly
look up the details of any jQuery method. Chapter 2, Selector Expressions, lists every
available selector for finding page elements.

Chapter 3, DOM Traversal Methods, builds on the previous chapter with a catalog of
jQuery methods for finding page elements.

Chapter 4, DOM Manipulation Methods, describes every opportunity for inspecting

and modifying the HTML structure of a page.
Preface

Chapter 5, Event Methods, details each event that can be triggered and reacted to
by jQuery.

Chapter 6, Effect Methods, defines the range of animations built into jQuery, as well as
the toolkit available for building your own.

Chapter 7, AJAX Methods, lists the ways in which jQuery can initiate and respond to
server communication without refreshing the page.

Chapter 8, Miscellaneous Methods, covers the remaining capabilities of the jQuery

library that don't neatly fit into the other categories.

Chapter 9, jQuery Properties, lists properties of the jQuery object that can be inspected
for information about the browser environment.

With the catalog of built-in functionality concluded, we'll dive into the extension
mechanisms jQuery makes available. Chapter 10, Plug-in API, reveals these powerful
ways to enhance jQuery's already robust capabilities using a plug-in.

Chapter 11, Alphabetical Quick Reference, offers a handy list of all methods and
their arguments.

Appendix A, Online Resources, provides a handful of informative web sites on a wide

range of topics related to jQuery, JavaScript, and web development in general.

Appendix B, Development Tools, recommends a number of useful third-party

programs and utilities for editing and debugging jQuery code within your personal
development environment.

What you need for this book

This book is a reference guide, not a tutorial. As such, prior exposure to the
jQuery library will be beneficial in navigating this reference. The book Learning
jQuery 1.3 is well-suited for this purpose.

To understand jQuery concepts, some knowledge of JavaScript is required, and

familiarity with HTML and CSS is helpful.
The jQuery library itself can be downloaded from http://jquery.com/. The
majority of examples in this book require only this library, a text editor, and a
web browser. Some AJAX examples require web server software as well, such as
Apache, but this requirement is avoided wherever possible.

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Who this book is for

This reference is designed for web developers who want a broad, organized view of
all that the jQuery library has to offer, or want a quick reference on their desks to refer
to for particular details. Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. You should
be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript, and have basic knowledge of jQuery to
make best use of this book.

Conventions
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different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an
explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The .removeAttr() method uses the
JavaScript removeAttribute() function."

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<ul>
<li>list item 1</li>
<li>list item 2</li>
<li>list item 3</li>
<li>list item 4</li>
<li>list item 5</li>
<li>list item 6</li>
</ul>

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relevant lines or items are set in bold:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.plug-in.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="custom.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<title>Example</title>
</head>

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the
screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "After this
code executes, clicks on Trigger the handler will also display the same message."

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 Anatomy of a jQuery Script
A typical jQuery script uses a wide assortment of the methods that the library
offers. Selectors, DOM manipulation, event handling, and so forth come into play
as required by the task at hand. In order to make the best use of jQuery, it's good to
keep in mind the breadth of capabilities it provides.

This book will itemize every method and function found in the jQuery library. As
there are so many to sort through, it will be useful to know what the basic categories
of methods are and how they come to play within a jQuery script. Here we will see a
fully functioning script, and examine how the different aspects of jQuery are utilized
in each part of it.

A dynamic table of contents

As an example of jQuery in action, we'll build a small script that dynamically extracts
the headings from an HTML document and assembles them into a table of contents
for the page. Our table of contents will be nestled on the top-right corner of the page
as shown in the following screenshot:
Anatomy of a jQuery Script

We'll have it collapsed initially as shown, but a click will expand it to full height.

At the same time, we'll add a feature to the main body text. The introduction
of the text on the page will not be loaded initially, but when the user clicks on
Introduction, the intro text will be inserted in place from another file.

Before we reveal the script that performs these tasks, we should walk through the
environment in which the script resides.

Obtaining jQuery
The official jQuery web site (http://jquery.com/) is always the most up-to-date
resource for code and news related to the library. To get started, we need a copy
of jQuery, which can be downloaded right from the front page of the site. Several
versions of jQuery may be available at any given moment; the most appropriate for
us will be the latest uncompressed version. As of the writing of this book, the latest
version of jQuery is 1.4.

No installation is required. To use jQuery, we just need to place it on our site in

a web-accessible location. As JavaScript is an interpreted language, there is no
compilation or build phase to worry about. Whenever we need a page to have
jQuery available, we will simply refer to the file's location from the HTML document
with a <script> tag as follows:
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

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Exploring the Variety of Random
Documents with Different Content
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father.”
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she said. “I need not go into details. She married him, and I have
never seen her since.”
“Did he know?”
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That was all I had strength to do. You think I was an unnatural
mother, of course; but—”
She saw that his eyes were moist as he raised them in answering.
“I should have said so yesterday without any hesitation; to-day—”
“To-day?” she echoed eagerly, as he paused.
“To-day,” he answered, letting his glance sweep over the pathetic
memorials so thick about them—“to-day at least I understand, and I
do not wonder.”
She looked at him with all her heart in her eyes, trying to read his
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of her slender black-gloved fingers.
“Come,” she said.
She led him across the room, and pointed to a colonel’s sash and
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“Those were my husband’s.”
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fight! One of my husband’s staff had been at West Point with them
both, and he told me. He saw it, and tried to come between them.
Your wife married you, knowing you to be the son of the man who
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The Northerner passed his hand across his forehead as if to wipe
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“Poor Louise!” he murmured, seemingly rather to himself than to
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“You come here,” Mrs. Desborough went on, feeling herself choke at
his words, but determined not to give way to the warmer impulse of
her heart, “and even you are moved by these sacred relics. What do
you think they are to us?”
She was half conscious that she was appealing to the memorials
around her to strengthen her in her purpose not to yield, not to
make peace with the son of the man who had slain her husband, her
hero, her love; she felt that in harboring for an instant such an
impulse she was untrue to the Cause which, though lost, was for her
forever living with the deathless devotion of love and anguish.
“These relics do move me,” her son-in-law said gently. “They move
me so deeply that they seem to me wrong. I confess that I was
thinking, before you came in, that if I were a Southerner, with the
traditions of the South behind me, and the bitter sense of failure to
embitter me, they would stir me to madness; that I should feel it
impossible ever to be loyal to anything but the South. The war is
over. The South at last is understood. She is honored for the
incredible bravery with which, under crushing odds, she fought for
her conviction. Why prolong the inevitable pain? Why gather these
relics to nourish a feeling absolutely untrue—the feeling that the
Union is less your country than it is ours?”
“Because it is just to the dead,” she answered swiftly. “Because it is
only justice that we keep in remembrance how true they were, how
gallant, how brave, how noble, and—O God!—that we make some
poor record of what we of the South have suffered!”
He shook his head and sighed. She saw the tears in his eyes and did
not attempt to hide her own.
“Would you have it forgotten,” she demanded passionately, “that the
grandfather of your son—the father of your wife—was one of God’s
noblemen? Would you have him remembered only as a beaten
rebel? I tell you that if we had not gathered these memorials, every
clod that was wet with their blood would cry out against us! In the
North you call these men rebels; there is no battlefield in the South
where the very rustle of the grass does not whisper over their graves
that they were patriots and heroes! And this, poor though it be”—
and she waved her hand to the cases around them—“is the best
memorial we can give them.”
He made a step forward, and held out both his hands impulsively.
She did not take them, and they dropped again. He hesitated, and
then drew back.
“It must be as it is,” he said sadly. “Even if I blamed you women of
the South, I could not say so here. Only,” he added, his voice falling,
“can you forget that the women of the North suffered too? I grew up
in the shadow of a grief so great that it sapped the very life of my
mother, and in the end killed her. Do you think I could visit that upon
the innocent head of Louise?—I did not mean, though, to speak of
myself, now that I know who you are. I will not intrude on you; but
my little son, with your husband’s name and his mother’s eyes, is
certainly guiltless. I will not come with him, but may I not send him
with my man to see you this afternoon, so that I may say to Louise
that you have kissed him and given him your blessing? Sorrow has
taken away his other grandmother.”
It seemed to her that she could not endure the speaking of one
syllable more. Her whole body trembled, and she raised her hands in
an impulsive gesture which implored him to be silent. All the old
mother-love for Louise, the passionate crying of her lonely heart for
this unseen grandson with the blood of her dead husband warm in
his veins, the grief of black years and fidelity to old ideals, warred
within her, and tore her like wolves. She cast a glance around as if to
find some way by which she could flee from this position which it
was too terrible to face. Then she saw her companion look at her
with infinite pity and sadness.
“Then,” he said, “I can only say good-by.”
But she sprang forward as if she burst from chains, and threw
herself upon his breast, the agony of the long, bitter past gushing in
a torrent of hot tears.
“Oh, my son! my son!” she sobbed.

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