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