If you’ve ever found yourself in a situation where you’re copy-pasting HTML into your JavaScript code, stop right there! There’s a better way. Enter jQuery HTML Templates, a technique that allows you to dynamically create and manipulate HTML content efficiently. In this article, we’ll explore what jQuery HTML Templates are, why they’re useful, and how to implement them using different approaches. Prepare for code, clarity, and just a pinch of humor.
Category: jQuery
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How to Convert an Existing Callback API to Promises
Asynchronous programming is an essential aspect of JavaScript, allowing developers to handle time-consuming tasks without blocking the execution of other code. Traditionally, JavaScript used callback functions to manage asynchronous operations. However, callbacks can lead to callback hell and make code difficult to read and maintain.
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How can I scroll to an Element Using jQuery?
The scroll event triggers when the user scrolls on your webpage. The scroll event can be used on any scrollable element or even the entire window object (browser window). The scroll() method fires the event, or you can attach it to a function to run custom code when the user triggers the scroll event.
Keep reading for full examples.
- .scroll() | jQuery API documentation
- Using document.body.scrollTop
- Using document.documentElement.scrollTop
- How to Smooth scroll to div id jQuery
- Smoothly scroll to an element without jQuery plugin
- Changing jQuery Smooth Scroll to Fast Scroll
- Scrolling to a specific element
- Frequently Asked Questions
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Manipulating an array of DOM elements with jQuery $.map()
jQuery’s $.map() function is a pretty neat function. It accepts a JavaScript array as a parameter and then will iterate through each item in the array allowing you to further manipulate and build a new array with that data. This article will explore how to use it while providing a useful example.
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jQuery HTML Templates
There is an updated version of this article: jQuery HTML Templates: 3 Solutions to get you started
When you have a lot of AJAX calls on your website, especially ones that return a list of data, it can be quite expensive processing time on the server to retrieve the results, format them with HTML, and return them to the browser to display – not only that, your bandwidth costs can be quite high as well. With jQuery templates, you can alter your AJAX calls to return JSON leveraging Javascript event handlers, and then populate the content client-side providing faster response times and less server processing as well from an external file or JSON object.