by Smashing Media
Apr 24 2008

51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

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There’s stuff all over the Web about jQuery, but finding the best tutorials to get you started can be tough. Here are Examples and tutorials from jQuery masters to keep you on the right track.

We will start with jQuery masters and feature some of their best tutorials, then we will move on to more categorized tutorials, cheat sheets and hacks.

You can also take a look at other 3 articles in this series :

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John Resig

John Resig, creator of the JQuery JavaScript library and author of Pro JavaScript Techniques, is a Mozilla technologist focused on the relationship between Mozilla and the world of JavaScript libraries.

Featured Tutorials of John Resig

15 Days Of jQuery

15 Days Of jQuery – Fantastic tutorials and example code that takes you from zero to hero in no time flat.

Featured Tutorials of 15 Days Of jQuery

Learning jQuery

Learning jQuery- Getting to know the library of choice for unobtrusive JavaScript.

Featured Tutorials on LearningjQuery.com

Bassistance

Bassistance- Goes through the basics of jQuery, all the way up to building plugins.

Featured Tutorials on Bassistance
  • Getting Started with jQuery- This guide is an introduction to the jQuery library. It starts from ground up and tries to explain details where necessary. It covers a simple hello world example, selector and event basics, AJAX, FX and usage and authoring of plugins.

Cody Lindley

Cody Lindley- Who created the ThickBox and jTip plugins.

Featured Tutorials on Cody Lindley

Remy sharp’s Blog

Remy sharp- Written many useful tutorials and plugins on his own blog, also he is the man behind the very useful jQueryForDesigners website which have many useful tutorials requested by his own readers.

Featured Tutorials on Remy sharp’s Blog
  • Text box hints- You will see a lot of web sites with search boxes have text already populated inside of the field and when you select the input text box it disappears and reappears when it’s not selected. This tutorial will show you how can add a small amount of jQuery to add this feature to any of your web sites.
  • Auto-populating Select Boxes using jQuery & AJAX- Allow the user to select a top level category from one select box and to automatically populate the sub-category using jQuery and Ajax.
Featured Tutorials on jQueryForDesigners
  • Using Ajax to Validate Forms- With this tutorial you will be able to have your first forms that do the following: 1) Live username checking, 2) Password confirmation and strength, 3) Checking if an email address is already registered, 4) URL validation
  • Image Cross Fade Transition- How to fade one image in to another?

Web Designer Wall

  • jQuery Tutorials for Designers- This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery. Effects include: Simple slide panel, Simple disappearing effect, Chain-able transition effects, Accordion, Animated hover effect, Entire block clickable, Collapsible panels.

CSS-Tricks

CSS-Tricks is a home for examples, tutorials, tips, tricks, and news regarding Cascading Style Sheets. Chris Coyer is getting into jQuery lately and posting interesting jQuery tutorials in his journey to learn jQuery.

Featured Tutorials on CSS-Tricks

Getting started with jQuery

  • The jSkinny on jQuery- A tutorial on the jQuery javascript library (from a Ruby/Rails perspective).
  • How to Get Anything You Want- An introduction to jQuery selectors and traversal methods, and their use in navigating the DOM.
  • It’s all about CSS- If you’ve got a good understand of CSS selectors, then you’re already familiar with how to query the DOM.
  • jQuery Crash Course- For those who’d like to learn more about jQuery, one of the more popular libraries, here’s a crash course written with code-savvy web designers in mind.

  • jQuery in 15 minutes- A short introduction to jQuery.
  • jQuery Basics- This section covers basic usage of jQuery from getting started to finding elements and working with CSS.
  • Easy JavaScript for Designers- A nice little writeup for the jQuery Java Script Library. Designers need all of the coding shortcuts they can and jQuery seems to deliver.

jQuery Cheat Sheets

  • jQuery Cheatsheet- The cheat sheet comes in two flavors: 1) Made for iPhone and iPod Touch, and any other mobile device with internet access. 2) Old-school printable A4 cheat sheet

  • jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet

Building jQuery Plugins

jQuery Effects and Techniques

Ajax development with jQuery

  • Easy Ajax with jQuery- Akash Mehta will show us how to simplify the process of adding Ajax to the application even further with the help of jQuery, a popular JavaScript library.
  • Simplify Ajax development with jQuery- Discover how easy Ajax and DOM scripting can be
  • Quick and Dirty AJAX- A walk through tutorial showing some of the basic ways you could use jQuery to add AJAX functionality to your site.
  • A Quick Code Igniter and JQuery Ajax Tutorial- A step-by-step tutorial will show you how to combine the power of jQuery with Code Igniter (a PHP framework based on the MVC design pattern) to quickly and painlessly pass a record ID through the javascript and over to the server, where it will be passed to a mysql database, used to retrieve some data, and sent back to the page for display.

jQuery Fixing common Browser Issues

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Comments and Discussions

  • Kool, 26 May 2011

    Thanks ;))

  • Crowdfinch, 13 June 2011

    Wow! Tthese are great tips very useful indeed.

  • thameem, 21 July 2011

    Aweasome collections of jquery. thank you for share this

  • sujeet kumar dwivedi, 25 July 2011

    thanks a lot for support.great tips for me…………………………………..

  • Artesano, 27 July 2011

    Tkanks for sharing! Very Nice!!

  • shreshtt, 05 August 2011

    thanks for this tremendous collection

  • Om, 19 August 2011

    Great efforts…

  • jacob, 23 August 2011

    nice post, thanks for this tutorial

  • oyun, 08 September 2011

    Awsome tutorial.Tkanks for sharing.

  • Spirit of Hack, 18 October 2011

    WOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!! BEAUTIFUL

  • samir, 20 October 2011

    nice tutorial

  • Abhilash Sahoo, 21 October 2011

    Very well written. Thank you very much for sharing.

  • omer engin birim, 23 October 2011

    Great work! Thank you..

  • Patrick Goetz, 03 November 2011

    Most of the links in ” 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples” appear to be dead — or pointing to contact other than what is advertised. I stopped looking after the first 15 or so.

  • Shekhar, 04 November 2011

    Thanks Alot ):

  • Rohit azad, 08 November 2011

    Nice tuturials

  • Zulhilmi Zainudin, 13 November 2011

    What a great collection you’ve. Thank you for this sharing. I’ll consider to use this as my guide.

  • matrus, 07 December 2011

    Thanks for sharing these links.

  • rhynix, 08 December 2011

    i love it

  • Way2Geeks, 10 December 2011

    nice collection..Thanks for sharing…

  • Sean Callahan, 16 December 2011

    Great links, thank you for compiling this list.

  • bas, 21 December 2011

    Cool stuff,, I have browsing around to see the best graphics to update my boring site, but some of this look promissing, thanx.

  • cheikh17, 30 December 2011

    Great work! Thank you..

  • Eda Can, 01 January 2012

    very nice. It will be useful for my next project

  • bao ho lao dong, 04 January 2012

    Thanks for sharing these links.

  • Joseph Buarao, 15 January 2012

    Great list of article, can’t wait for the part 2..

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