On the previous article, I introduced jQuery and showed how to enable it in your web app, along with a little insight on the basics. Now I’ll start showing some of the most useful methods you will find in the library, along with a sample for each.
In this tutorial, I will be explaining what jQuery is, how it can help you in your web projects, and then you will be taken on a trip through the process of enabling jQuery on a web application. Trust me: if you’ve never tried jQuery, you’re in for a treat! Besides the library itself, jQuery also has a UI part, that allows you to easily integrate widgets in your UI.
A useful procedure I've been developing over the past, while developing web forms, is invoking popup windows that allow me to select an item from a custom list of items (for instance, entity objecrs bound to a DataGrid). The client click event on an item (wether its a cell, row, div...) will then pass some kind of reference to its parent window for it to know what the selected item was and properly deal with it.
Keeping this approach in mind, you can invoke a popup window by using window.open(). This is a W3C standard method, and has 3 parameters:
Url: Optional. String...