Using the mouse in jQuery is really easy, and opens up a whole new world for those who use javascript. But, just about everything already has a mouse event attached to it. Images are especially tricky, usually allowing click-and-dragging by default. Today we will go over a useful function that will help you take control over just what the mouse button does on certain elements.

jQuery is one really awesome JavaScript library, and there is definitely no argument that it makes life easier. But its robustness can be its downfall sometimes. You can do almost anything with it, but with some things it is hard to figure out just how to do it. Today I will take you through some jQuery selectors that you may have not known about concerning forms.

Those of us who are used to GUI frameworks are used to the many components often built in. Everything from textboxes to progress bars are at our disposal. But when you move to the web there are no 'built in' version of many of these building blocks. The treeview has many incarnations on the web, and there is good reason. It is a versatile component, usable in any type of collection management. There are many ways to get a treeview going on the web, but today we will be taking jQuery and making a quick and dirty treeview - one that can be built and used in a matter of minutes.

Chrome's extension system is far from finished, however I decided to give what they've got a trial run. This tutorial will provide a step-by-step guide on how to build a simple "Tweet This" extension for Google Chrome.

For whatever reason, there may be times when the mouse position relative to the page document is just not specific enough. Sometimes you may want the position as it relates to a specific element. Maybe you want the position of something in an image, maybe you are just curious, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that you want those coordinates. Thankfully, with jQuery, we can easily do this.

Lately I've been working with jQuery plugins and I decided to create a tutorial demonstrating how to use the jQuery plugin system to build a simple star ratings control.

Tooltips are not the most exciting thing about the web. I mean you hover your mouse over a link or image for a couple of seconds and you get some text describing it. With all the really cool web apps out there, tooltips have lost their touch on the web. But, with a little help from jQuery, we can take these boring tips and replace them with our own fancy ones. Since jQuery is quite an amazing library, we can do this in a snap.

Design is important on any project. Anything from the user interface down to the button icons are an important part of the overall design. But when you are on the web, there is one design element that slacks big time when it comes to choices: fonts. Typefaces on the web have been a major complaint of web designers since the web began, and there is no real trend that shows there will be support for more than just web-safe fonts anytime soon. To make things worse, there is not much you can do about the issue. Images seem to be the most widely used and accepted medium for custom type-facing, but today we will discuss another choice: sIFR.

Whereas we've used Javascript to dynamically modify table contents in a previous tutorial, we've never written a tutorial specifically explaining how it's done. That's where this tutorial comes in. I'm going to demonstrate, through some simple examples, how to dynamically add and remove table rows and cells using Javascript.

Lately I have been doing a lot with jQuery and one item is a slideshow. Around the web you can find a variety of slideshows, all with slightly different implementations. Well today I am going to add to the already long list with a very simple solution. With the same code you can use this slideshow to display anything you can put into html.