jQuery Kicks Ass

If Chuck Norris were a javascript framework, he would be jQuery.  If you spell jQuery in the game of Scrabble , you win for ever.  That’s how awesome jQuery is.  I’ve used many a javascript frameworks, such as prototype.js, mootools, and script.aculus.us, but none have I found so flexible, so light, and so extendable a jQuery.  The core framework is very compact and whatever you need that the core does not provide, you can find a jQuery plugin that will do it.  I’m not really going to go into any examples, this blog is more like a notebook of common plugins that I’ve found very useful.  As a note to Visual Studio users, they have done a excellent job of providing javascript intellescene and now ship ASP.NET MVC with jQuery plus a .js file with all the code commenting.

Date pickers

http://www.eyecon.ro/datepicker/

http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/ (full calendar)

Validation

http://validity.thatscaptaintoyou.com/

http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/

Tooltip

http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-tooltip/

Templating

http://publicityson.blogspot.com/2009/11/dynamic-content-using-html-templates.html

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