There are many jQuery plugins that give designers an array of options to use in order to make very nice captions. We can’t argue with that, and what I am going to do here is not much different, but it might just help you avoid the need to include a large number of plugins on a single web page. After all, captions are not that hard to achieve, and in this tutorial we are going to make them very simple and with less than ten lines of JavaScript code. Compare that and plugins which incorporate a large number of lines, and you’re gonna see advantages. Not to mention that those plugins often provide options that you don’t even need most of the time.

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Just as we’ve started plugins section with a simple plugin, lets start tutorials section with a simple tutorial in which we will use jQuery to filter out table rows that do not contain desired search string. It really doesn’t get simpler than that as we will use only a couple of jQuery lines to achieve our goal. All we need is a simple HTML page with a form, input field, and a table with some text through which we can do the search. Lets get started.

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Sometimes logical steps, which we use every day to find solutions for our problems, fail us without a single word of warning. Let me explain. Sudden need for a nice star rating system tutorial, which could be used as a basis for a custom made rating control, resulted with poor response from our mighty search engines. High expectations ended up pretty quickly, and all I could find was either unusable, either poorly documented or broken, or just back linked to previous ones, which is even worse. But, after additional filtering I’ve managed to isolate four tutorials that are worth checking out, and from which we can all learn a thing or two.

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