You don’t need jQuery for that purpose. You can use just some pure JavaScript: function getParameterByName(name) { name = name.replace(/[\[]/, “\\[“).replace(/[\]]/, “\\]”); var regex = new RegExp(“[\\?&]” + name + “=([^&#]*)”), results = regex.exec(location.search); return results == null ? “” : decodeURIComponent(results[1].replace(/\+/g, ” “)); } Usage: var prodId = getParameterByName(‘prodId’);
jQuery is not necessary, and window.location.replace(…) will best simulate an HTTP redirect. It is better than using window.location.href =, because replace() does not put the originating page in the session history, meaning the user won’t get stuck in a never-ending back-button fiasco. If you want to simulate someone clicking on… Continue reading
At the same time that server-side web development was moving through an alphabet soup of technologies, a new type of programming was gaining popularity. Developers began to experiment with the different ways they could enhance web pages by embedding miniature applets built with JavaScript, ActiveX, Java, and Flash into web… Continue reading
Another one of jQuery’s strengths is the API it provides for subscribing to events in the DOM. Although you can use a generic bind function to capture any event using an event name specified as a string, jQuery also provides dedicated methods for common events, such as click, blur, and… Continue reading
Selectors are the strings you pass to the jQuery function to select elements in the DOM. Example: $(function () { $(“#album-list img”).mouseover(function () { $(this).animate({ height: ‘+=25’, width: ‘+=25’ }) .animate({ height: ‘-=25’, width: ‘-=25’ }); }); }); In this example, we used “#album-list img” as a selector to find… Continue reading