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In the previous part of this series I discussed how

My recent article titled "Displaying a Character Counter for Multiline Textboxes" shows you how to create a character counter like Twitter for multiline textboxes. The articles does so using ASP.NET AJAX client behavior. Here is a jQuery version of the code that does similar job. Note, however, that unlike ASP.NET AJAX client behavior as illustrated in the article the following code takes a "function" based approach to quickly implement similar functionality.

By now you know how to alter existing elements and their attributes. jQuery also allows you insert, append, remove and replace elements from HTML DOM so that you can modify the document structure. For example, say you are calling some WCF service from client script and based on its return values need to generate HTML table on the fly. In this article I am going to demonstrate some of these jQuery features by developing a simple RSS gadget that grabs and displays RSS feed items in a web form.

There are several ancient texts available on the subject of Kundalini Yoga. Out of all of them three texts namely Hathayoga Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita and Shiva Samhita have gained importance and popularity in the Yoga circle. Again Hathayoga Pradipika (HYP) is possibly the most popular one amongst Indian as well as western practitioners. Though all forms of spiritual practices aim at controlling the mind stuff they advocate different means to attain this goal. For Yogis this path is of Kundalini awakening and to that end Hathayoga is one of the most important methodology.

After discussing Attribute selectors and many filters in the previous part lets move ahead and understand the remaining couple of selectors. So far, you know Basic selectors, Basic filters, Attribute selectors, Child filters, Content filters and Visibility filters of jQuery. In this article I cover the remaining selectors viz. Form selectors and Hierarchy selectors. Form selectors allow you to select FORM elements based on their type (textbox, checkbox, radio button etc.) or their status (selected, checked, disabled etc.).

In the previous part, I explained basic selectors and basic filters. Now let's try to understand attribute selectors, content filters, child filters and visibility filters. Attribute selectors allow you to match attributes of HTML elements with certain criteria. It is not just "equal to" kind of matching but several other options are also available as outlined in the table below.

While working with client side script you often need to perform specific tasks to certain elements. jQuery selectors allow you to match HTML elements against certain criteria and select them for further processing. jQuery builds on the selectors provided by CSS 3.0 and adds some of its own. jQuery selectors can be grouped into the following eight categories...

If you are keeping yourself updated with the latest in the .NET sphere, you are probably aware that Microsoft has provided an inbuilt support for jQuery in Visual Studio 2010. Though it was possible to use jQuery with ASP.NET even before VS 2010, formally including jQuery as a part of website created using VS2010 means that more and more developers are going to learn and use it. If you haven't tried jQuery yet this article series will teach you everything needed to master jQuery and use it in ASP.NET applications.