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Special Events in jQuery. How to add a custom “tripleclick” event to jQuery, using the jQuery.event.special extension hook.

# 30th March 2009, 10:15 am / brandon-aaron, events, javascript, jquery

Live Query jQuery plugin. Ingenious plugin that lets you register jQuery event bindings to be executed when a new element matching the provided selector is added to the DOM. Performance is kept snappy by only running the check after a jQuery DOM manipulation method has been executed (append, prepend, attr etc); it won’t notice elements added using regular DOM methods.

# 22nd August 2007, 10:01 pm / brandon-aaron, dom, javascript, jquery, plugins, selectors

Background Iframe (bgiframe). jQuery plugin that inserts an iframe shim behind an element in IE, allowing the element to be positioned overlapping a select box without the select box showing through.

# 9th August 2007, 2:54 pm / brandon-aaron, ie, iframes, internet-explorer, javascript, jquery, plugins, select