By Jonathan Chaffer
Better interplay layout and internet improvement with easy JavaScript suggestions
- An advent to jQuery that calls for minimum programming experience
- Detailed recommendations to precise client-side problems
- For internet designers to create interactive parts for his or her designs
- For builders to create the easiest consumer interface for his or her net applications
- Packed with nice examples, code, and transparent explanations
- Revised and up to date model of the 1st e-book that can assist you study jQuery
In aspect
To construct attention-grabbing, interactive websites, builders are turning to JavaScript libraries reminiscent of jQuery to automate universal initiatives and simplify advanced ones. simply because many internet builders have extra event with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library's layout lends itself to a brief commence for designers with little programming event. skilled programmers can be aided by way of its conceptual consistency.
Revised and up to date for model 1.3 of jQuery, this publication teaches you the fundamentals of jQuery for including interactions and animations for your pages. no matter if prior makes an attempt at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this ebook will consultant you prior the pitfalls linked to AJAX, occasions, results, and complicated JavaScript language features.
In this e-book, the authors proportion their wisdom, event, and exuberance approximately jQuery that will help you get the main from the library and to make your net functions shine. The ebook introduces jQuery and exhibits how one can write a functioning jQuery software in precisely 3 traces of code. It then courses you thru CSS selectors and exhibits easy methods to improve the elemental occasion dealing with mechanisms to provide them a extra stylish syntax. you are going to then learn how to upload effect in your activities via a collection of straightforward visible results and likewise to create, replica, reassemble, and enhance content material utilizing jQuery's DOM amendment tools. additionally, you will learn how to ship and retrieve info with AJAX tools. The e-book will then step you thru many specified, real-world examples or even equip you to increase the jQuery library itself together with your personal plug-ins.
What you are going to research from this e-book?
This ebook offers you the instruments try to be at the leading edge of the internet improvement neighborhood. With those options at your disposal, you could:
- Use selectors to get something you will want from a page
- Make issues occur in your web page with events
- Add aptitude for your activities with animation effects
- Change your web page on command with DOM manipulation
- Use AJAX to get the main out of server-side code
- Transform drab, static info bins into appealing, dynamic tables
- Breathe new existence into on-line forms
- Create dynamic shufflers, rotators, and galleries
- Get began with legitimate jQuery plug-ins
- Customize by means of writing your individual jQuery plug-ins
Approach
This publication starts with an instructional to jQuery, by means of an exam of universal, real-world client-side difficulties, and options to every of them making it a useful source for solutions to your entire jQuery questions.
Who this booklet is written for?
This ebook is for net designers who are looking to create interactive parts for his or her designs, and for builders who are looking to create the easiest person interface for his or her net functions. simple JavaScript programming wisdom is needed. it is important to understand the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, and may be pleased with the syntax of JavaScript. No wisdom of jQuery is thought, neither is event with the other JavaScript libraries required.
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With the class now applied, our nested list looks like this: [ 23 ] Chapter 2 Styling links Attribute selectors accept a wildcard syntax inspired by regular expressions for identifying the value at the beginning (^) or ending ($) of a string. They can also take an asterisk (*) to indicate the value at an arbitrary position within a string or an exclamation mark to indicate a negated value. Let's say we want to have different styles for different types of links. henrylink { background-color: #fff; padding: 2px; border: 1px solid #000; } Then, we add the three classes—mailto, pdflink, and henrylink—to the appropriate links using jQuery.
The syntax is the same as the CSS pseudo-class syntax, where the selector starts with a colon (:). horizontal:eq(1)') Note that :eq(1) selects the second item in the set because JavaScript array numbering is zero-based, meaning that it starts with 0. In contrast, CSS is one-based, so a CSS selector such as $('div:nth-child(1)') would select all div selectors that are the first child of their parent (in this case, however, we would probably use $('div:first-child') instead). [ 26 ] Chapter 2 Styling alternate rows Two very useful custom selectors in the jQuery library are :odd and :even.
Horizontal:eq(1)') Note that :eq(1) selects the second item in the set because JavaScript array numbering is zero-based, meaning that it starts with 0. In contrast, CSS is one-based, so a CSS selector such as $('div:nth-child(1)') would select all div selectors that are the first child of their parent (in this case, however, we would probably use $('div:first-child') instead). [ 26 ] Chapter 2 Styling alternate rows Two very useful custom selectors in the jQuery library are :odd and :even. addClass('alt'); }); But wait!