Tutorial Simple Auto-Playing Slideshow

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HTML

Wrapper with div's as the "slides", which can contain any content.

<div id="slideshow">
   <div>
     <img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5224/5658667829_2bb7d42a9c_m.jpg">
   </div>
   <div>
     <img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5638093881_a791e4f819_m.jpg">
   </div>
   <div>
     Pretty cool eh? This slide is proof the content can be anything.
   </div>
</div>

CSS

Slides need to be absolutely positioned within the wrapper. This has a tiny bit of extra pizazz:

#slideshow { 
    margin: 50px auto; 
    position: relative; 
    width: 240px; 
    height: 240px; 
    padding: 10px; 
    box-shadow: 0 0 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.4); 
}

#slideshow > div { 
    position: absolute; 
    top: 10px; 
    left: 10px; 
    right: 10px; 
    bottom: 10px; 
}

jQuery JavaScript

Run after DOM is ready.

$("#slideshow > div:gt(0)").hide();

setInterval(function() { 
  $('#slideshow > div:first')
    .fadeOut(1000)
    .next()
    .fadeIn(1000)
    .end()
    .appendTo('#slideshow');
},  3000);

See it

View Demo

Very similar one from Snook.

Tutorial Shuffle DOM Elements

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This is from James Padolsey. Check out his article for a pure JavaScript technique as well.

Plugin

(function($){
 
    $.fn.shuffle = function() {
 
        var allElems = this.get(),
            getRandom = function(max) {
                return Math.floor(Math.random() * max);
            },
            shuffled = $.map(allElems, function(){
                var random = getRandom(allElems.length),
                    randEl = $(allElems[random]).clone(true)[0];
                allElems.splice(random, 1);
                return randEl;
           });
 
        this.each(function(i){
            $(this).replaceWith($(shuffled[i]));
        });
 
        return $(shuffled);
 
    };
 
})(jQuery);

Usage

Target elements, call shuffle.

$('ul#list li').shuffle();

Tutorial Shuffle Children

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Nice clean version of a ghetto one that I wrote. 

$.fn.shuffleChildren = function() {
    $.each(this.get(), function(index, el) {
        var $el = $(el);
        var $find = $el.children();

        $find.sort(function() {
            return 0.5 - Math.random();
        });

        $el.empty();
        $find.appendTo($el);
    });
};

Usage

$(".parent-element").shuffleChildren();

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Tutorial Show Most Recent Picasaweb Uploads

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Replace the "tester" username below with your own, and the target value with the selector of the element you wish to append the pictures to.

$(document).ready(function() {
	$.getJSON("http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/tester/?kind=photo&access=public&alt=json&callback=?",
	function(data) {
		var target = "#latest-picasaweb-images ul"; // Where is it going?
		for (i = 0; i <= 9; i = i + 1) { // Loop through the 10 most recent, [0-9]
			var pic = data.feed.entry[i].media$group;
			var liNumber = i + 1; // Add class to each LI (1-10)
			var thumbSize = 0; // Size of thumbnail - 0=small 1=medium 2=large
			$(target).append("<li class='no-" + liNumber + "'><a title='" + pic.media$description.$t + "' href='" + pic.media$content[0].url + "'><img src='" + pic.media$thumbnail[thumbSize].url + "' /></a></li>");
		}
	});
});

Example

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Tutorial Show Most Recent Flickr Uploads

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This code will display the most recent uploads from Flickr for any account. Replace the "35591378@N03" (the Whitehouse account) in the code below with the ID of the account you are fetching from. Use this if you need help finding it. Alter the "9" in the loop to show more or less than 10.

$(document).ready(function() {
       $.getJSON("http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=35591378@N03&format=json&jsoncallback=?", function(data) {
               var target = "#latest-flickr-images ul"; // Where is it going?
               for (i = 0; i <= 9; i = i + 1) { // Loop through the 10 most recent, [0-9]
                       var pic = data.items[i];
                       var liNumber = i + 1; // Add class to each LI (1-10)
                       $(target).append("<li class='flickr-image no-" + liNumber + "'><a title='" + pic.title + "' href='" + pic.link + "'><img src='" + pic.media.m + "' /></a></li>");
               }
       });
});

Example

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Tutorial Set/Clear Default Input Value

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$('.default-value').each(function() {

       var default_value = this.value;

       $(this).focus(function(){
               if(this.value == default_value) {
                       this.value = '';
               }
       });

       $(this).blur(function(){
               if(this.value == '') {
                       this.value = default_value;
               }
       });

});

Tutorial Serialize Form to JSON

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$.fn.serializeObject = function()
{
   var o = {};
   var a = this.serializeArray();
   $.each(a, function() {
       if (o[this.name]) {
           if (!o[this.name].push) {
               o[this.name] = [o[this.name]];
           }
           o[this.name].push(this.value || '');
       } else {
           o[this.name] = this.value || '';
       }
   });
   return o;
};

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