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If you are a web developer and use Firefox, you are likely to have heard of Firebug. The final version of Firebug 1.0 is out, and offers a lot more than the previous version (0.4.1). So I would suggest you to Get Firebug if you haven't already. It is great for debugging as you can edit/inspect HTML and CSS on the live page and set breakpoints in JavaScript. If only Internet Explorer had something like this (I am aware of the Microsoft Script Editor (comes with Office and is activated within Word/Excel etc by pressing Alt+Shift+F11) and Visual Studio, but they are external applications and don't allow debugging while in the browser). Firebug is even handy for non-developers (if they are interested in moving into development) as you can see the scripts and CSS pages are using, as well as see what files are being downloaded by the browser (including those downloaded by Flash).

There is a way of getting the jQuery version, but it is not through using jQuery.version as you may expect. alert("jQuery version is: " + jQuery().jquery); Here is a basic function that can be used to grab more valuable information from this. function jQueryVersion() { var ver = (new jQuery()).jquery; // if there are two .'s it is a bug fix release if(ver.match(/\./g).length == 2) { return { "version" : ver, "major" : ver.substr(0, ver.indexOf(".")), "minor" : ver.substr(ver.indexOf(".") + 1, ver.lastIndexOf(".") - ver.indexOf(".") - 1), "revision" : ver.substr(ver.lastIndexOf(".") + 1) } } // otherwise it is an initial release else { return { "version" : ver, "major" : ver.substr(0, ver.indexOf(".")), "minor" : ver.substr(ver.indexOf(".") + 1), "revision" : 0 } } } This could b...

Several high profile sites use jQuery. The jQuery Wiki has a page listing those sites: Sites Using jQuery

Updated my plugins for working with checkboxes http://www.texotela.co.uk/code/jquery/checkboxes/ Toggle, check, uncheck and make them behave like radio buttons. Works with jQuery 1.0 and 1.1. You supply the container, and optionally return the check items (if using toggleCheckboxes or checkCheckboxes) or unchecked items (unCheckCheckBoxes): $("#mycontainer").toggleCheckboxes().doSomethingWithMyContainer(); $("#mycontainer").toggleCheckboxes("[@name=foo]", true).doSomethingWithCheckedBoxes(); For turning a checkbox group --> radio style selection: $.radioCheckboxGroup("fieldname")

Update 24 Feb 2007 : Link to Sean O's jQueryHelp Update 23 Feb 2007 : Added links for PDF's of API Update 29 Jan 2007 : Jörn Zaefferer's API browser is no longer a draft. Link below. 22:10 it also is printer friendly and can be downloaded for offline viewing. Visual jQuery 1.1.1 is also now available (and can also be downloaded). Update 18 Jan 2007 : A PDF Version of the documentation is available. To download, go to JQuery documentation in PDF . Only for the latest version of jQuery (1.1), although those with experience with Java will probably be able to check out an older version to generate the documentation. If you are a user of jQuery, it is likely that you are aware of Visual jQuery, which is an alternative reference for the jQuery API. What you may not know, is that on the site is documentation for other versions as well (so if you still use an older 1.0.x version, you can still see it on the site). Here are the links (that I know of) to the documentation of the ...

Some developers misuse the Array constructor to create an associative array. However, this is not a good way of doing this as all the methods/properties available to an array (length, index, sort etc) will not work. var foo = []; // [] is the same as 'new Array()' foo["bar"] = "baz"; alert(foo.length); When the alert fires, it will return '0' instead of '1'. As it doesn't function as a proper array, you may as well use an object instead: var foo = {}; // {} is the same as 'new Object()' foo["bar"] = "baz"; However, you can't see how many items there are without looping through the object. I have written a simple class that can be used that offers this (through the function 'getSize()' as well as a few other methods). As a result, you can't have anything with the keys 'getSize', 'remove', 'toString' and 'toArray'. var AssociativeArray = function() { if(argu...

Code Snippets is a public source code repository where you can add your own and share them as well as browse existing ones by tags. Unfortunately it lacks search facilities or a way of navigating by multiple tags (i.e. you can not find snippets with the tag 'array' and 'javascript').