Cosmic pictures are used on many websites as a background image. Those pictures are undoubtedly beautiful, but after all they are still static images which provide little liveliness. With jQuery, we can bring a still cosmic image to life by adding some space dust (particles) flying like fireflies.

In this PLUS tutorial, we’ll review how to mimic the effect shown here in thirty minutes. We’ll learn a bit of object-oriented JavaScript techniques as well. Signup for Plus!

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With jQuery, selecting HTML elements is laughably easy. But at times, we may wish to further refine the selection, which can be a hassle when the HTML structure is complicated. In this tutorial, we’ll explore ten ways that we can refine and extend a set of wrapped elements that we wish to operate upon.

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There are at least five ways to make AJAX calls with the jQuery library. For beginners, however, the differences between each can be a bit confusing. In this tutorial, we’ll line them up and make a comparison. Additionally. we’ll review how to inspect these AJAX calls with Firebug as well.

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The live search effect is no novelty in desktop apps. In Mac OS X or Windows Vista/7, just type a few letters in a search box, and almost instantly you get the search results on the fly. Having to hit the submit button is becoming old school. This tutorial will show you how to bring this cool effect to the web world with jQuery. The code used in this tutorial is modified based on John Resig’s approach. Join today!

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