Staying Current: Automating Copyright Year Updates
Automate copyright year updates across JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, PHP, and WordPress so footers do not go stale each January across stacks.
Articles
jQuery
Solidly out of fashion now, jQuery was a feature‑rich JavaScript library which allowed an easy route for new developers to write JavaScript, without understanding the more nuanced aspects of the language.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about jQuery. Although this is a topic I've been working with for many years, it's fair to say that I've not written about it often. I've only managed to publish five articles about it, which you can see and read below.
Staying Current: Automating Copyright Year Updates. DOM Traversal: closest() in Vanilla JavaScript and jQuery. DOM Traversal:
closest()in Vanilla JavaScript and jQueryUse closest() for DOM traversal in jQuery and vanilla JavaScript, replacing manual parent walking in menus, click handlers, and interactive UI cleanly.
Handling Click Events in JavaScript. Handling Click Events in JavaScript
Handle click events in JavaScript with onclick and addEventListener, including vanilla alternatives to jQuery, event targets, and common interaction patterns.
How to Check an Element Exists with and Without jQuery. How to Check an Element Exists with and Without jQuery
Check whether an element exists with jQuery or vanilla JavaScript before running DOM code, avoiding null errors and fragile client‑side behaviour.
A Simple Popup Window Using jQuery. A Simple Popup Window Using jQuery
Opening a new browser window programmatically on‑click is very simple to achieve with jQuery, and no more complex to achieve with vanilla JavaScript too!
