Each jQuery event has a data object attached to it. This object can store any kind of data, including simple object properties or even object methods. You can define a separate object and then associate it with your event through data. This object is the second parameter of the bind() method used to attach an event to a page element. Once you associate your custom object with data, you can later reference your object methods and properties using data. An example:

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In this post I'm going to show you how to create an effective entry effect with jQuery. Imagine that you have a slide with several components inside. You want that after this slide appears each component must be shown in a sequence. To accomplish this, we only need a few CSS rules a couple of jQuery effects. Let's start with our markup:

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Today the server farm that hosts the web sites where I store my examples and assets used in this blog has been shut down for several hours. Apparently, a fire started in a room so that all the servers have been put offline for precaution. Probably you first noticed that my blog was awful slow. That was due to the fact that your web browser was trying to load my unreachable assets, so I had to comment the HTML to temporarily fix the problem. Now everything works fine again, and my assets are back in place. My hosting company, Aruba, tweeted a lot about any news concerning this problem but it was forced to close their call centers (lines completely overloaded) while they were working to fix this problem. I have to say that they've faced the situation bravely: a fire in a server farm is not the ideal situation when you have the half of Italian web sites hosted on your servers. smile