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The other three posts in my Five JavaScript Tips in Five Days series for Peachpit Press have now been posted. The full set is:

• Handling JSON Data Securely
• Debugging XML/JSON Requests
• Choosing a JavaScript Framework
• Performing Cross-Domain Ajax Requests
• Loading JavaScript Faster

If you’ve been reading my jQuery series of posts sequentially, then you saw how to incorporate jQuery into an HTML page, learned how to select elements so that you can use or manipulate them, grasped how to add event handlers, and saw some of the effects that can easily be applied. In this post, I discuss other ways you can manipulate document elements: by altering their CSS, changing their values and attributes, and by adding or removing elements. Although these techniques have an affect on the visual page, I’ve grouped them together here (separate from the effects post) as they’re all primarily about delivering content. (continue reading…)

I’ve written a series of short posts for Peachpit Press’ Web site under the title Five JavaScript Tips in Five Days. The first two have been posted:

• Handling JSON Data Securely
• Debugging XML/JSON Requests

The other three, on choosing a JavaScript framework, performing cross-domain Ajax requests, and loading JavaScript faster, will hopefully be put online soon.