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Official Forum

As of January 19, 2010 the jQuery mailing lists are no longer actively moderated or tracked by the jQuery team. We highly recommend that you move your conversations over to the new jQuery Forum:

http://forum.jquery.com/

More information about the move: http://jquery14.com/day-07/new-jquery-forum

Mailing Lists

jQuery has many active mailing lists where you can feel free to discuss jQuery, ask questions, talk about JavaScript, or announce your plugins.

Contacting a Mailing List

  • First, in order to submit a question to a mailing list, you must be subscribed to the list (this is to help curtail malicious users). We also have a number of different lists:
    • jQuery General Discussion - this is the best place to post if you have general questions or concerns. Also, if you've built a site that uses jQuery, or would like to announce a new plugin, this is the place to do it. Please note that this list is moderated (due to spam). Your first messages may take a few hours to get through, but future messages will show up instantly once you are out of the new-member-is-moderated policy.
    • jQuery Dev List - This mailing list centers around development of the jQuery library itself. Post here if you have questions about certain bugs, development with jQuery, features, or anything in the bug tracker or SVN.
    • jQuery UI General Discussion - the place to discuss use of jQuery UI Interactions, Widgets, and Effects - Draggable, Droppable, Resizable, Selectable, Sortable, Accordion, Datepicker, Dialog, Progressbar, Slider, Tabs, Theming. Please note that this list is moderated (due to spam). Your first messages may take a few hours to get through, but future messages will show up instantly once you are out of the new-member-is-moderated policy.
    • jQuery UI Dev List - the place to discuss development of jQuery UI itself - including bugs, new plugins, and how you can help. All jQuery UI svn commits are posted to this list to facilitate feedback, discussion, and review. Also note that a lot of the development and planning of jQuery UI takes place on the jQuery UI Development and Planning Wiki
    • jQuery Plugins List - If you are a plugin author or user and you wish to discuss specific plugins, plugin bugs, new features, or new plugins.
  • Now that you've subscribed to the mailing lists of your choosing, you can send an email to the following addresses:

Support Questions

The mailing lists are the right place to ask when you have some unresolved problem with jQuery. To ensure that you'll get a useful answer in no time, please consider the following advice:

  • ensure your markup is valid
  • use Firebug to see if you have an exception
  • use Firebug to inspect the html classes, css. etc.
  • try expected resulting html and css without javascript/jQuery and see if the problem could be isolated to those two
  • reduce to a minimal test case (keep removing things until the problem goes away, etc.)
  • provide that test case as part of your mail, either upload it somewhere or post it on jsbin.com

In general, keep your question short and focused and provide only essential details - others can be added when required.

A lot of issues are IE specific, make sure you cover these:

RSS Feed

If you prefer, rather than subscribing to the full General Discussion mailing list, you can subscribe to an RSS Feed of the list, containing all of the posts:
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/feeds

Archives

Currently, there are two different ways of browsing the mailing list archives.

Unsubscribing

You can manage your mailing list subscriptions, including subscribing, or unsubscribing, from the mailing list here:

IRC Channel

jQuery also has an active IRC Channel, hosted by FreeNode.

The IRC Channel is best if you need quick help with any of the following:

  • JavaScript
  • jQuery Syntax
  • Problem Solving
  • Strange bugs

If your problem is more in-depth, we may ask you to post to the mailing list, or the bug tracker, so that we can help you in a more-suitable environment.

Connecting

Use the following information to connect to the channel.

For general discussion and jQuery development, please visit:

Server: irc.freenode.net
Room: #jquery

For jQuery UI discussion, please visit:

Server: irc.freenode.net
Room: #jquery-ui

For discussion on development of jQuery itself, please visit:

Server: irc.freenode.net
Room: #jquery-dev

If you wish to post long code snippets to the channel, you should use a paste site, like the following:

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