jQuery
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering beginner questions to point people toward jQuery as a quick way to handle DOM tasks like checking all checkboxes or fetching data from a server.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2008 to 2009.
What it is
A Google Tech Talk from April 2008 introducing the jQuery JavaScript library. It covers basic usage, building plugins, and, time permitting, a look inside several plugins and the library internals. The speaker is Dmitri Gaskin, a young jQuery and Drupal contributor.
What people said
Recommends Dave Markle · 2008-12 · Stack Overflow · on “How do I check all checkboxes on an HTML page with one click?”
This is a job for jQuery [this video] . Spend some time today and learn about it if you can. It's awesome for just this sort of task.
Recommends miku · 2009-11 · Stack Overflow · on “Calling PHP in html page”
You can use javascript to fetch some data into your html from your php. Example using jQuery [LINK] (put this in your html): <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> <!-- javascript in html --> $(document).ready(function(){ // start here, if DOM is loaded // request data from php script ... // we expect the userCheck.php script to actually 'return' something, // some data ... $.get("userCheck.php", function(data){ alert("Data Loaded: " + data); }); // or with some params to the php // e.g. userCheck.php can handle username and favcolor parameters $.get("userCheck.php", {"username" : "lazy", "favcolor" : "FFFFFF" }, function(data){ alert("Data Loaded: " + data); }); }); </script> If th
Cites Niger · 2009-08 · Stack Overflow · on “jQuery : how to debug?”
Recently i watched a tutorial from youtube ( [this video] ) The boy is typing jQuery code and as soon as he presses enter key we can see the result intently. What tool is that?