[Links]: Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Table of Contents

•   1.  Load the framework from Google Code
•   2.  Use a cheat sheet
•   3.  Combine all your scripts and minify them
•   4.  Use Firebug's excellent console logging facilities
•   5.  Keep selection operations to a minimum by caching
•   6.  Keep DOM manipulation to a minimum
•   7.  Wrap everything in a single element when doing any kind of DOM insertion
•   8.  Use IDs instead of classes wherever possible
•   9.  Give your selectors a context
• 10.  Use chaining properly
• 11.  Learn to use animate properly
• 12.  Learn about event delegation
• 13.  Use classes to store state
• 14.  Even better, use jQuery's internal data() method to store state
• 15.  Write your own selectors
• 16.  Streamline your HTML and modify it once the page has loaded
• 17.  Lazy load content for speed and SEO benefits
• 18.  Use jQuery's utility functions
• 19.  Use noconflict to rename the jquery object when using other frameworks
• 20.  How to tell when images have loaded
• 21.  Always use the latest version
• 22.  How to check if an element exists
• 23.  Add a JS class to your HTML attribute
• 24.  Return 'false' to prevent default behaviour
• 25.  Shorthand for the ready event