jQuery: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through jQuery and show you what to do.

• Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.

• Page for page, the best content and value around.

• Steven Holzner is an award-winning author who specializes in Web topics such as Ajax and JavaScript. He has written more than 100 books, all on programming topics, selling well over 3 million copies. His books have been translated into 18 languages around the world and include numerous industry bestsellers. He's a former contributing editor of PC Magazine. Steven received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his Ph.D. from Cornell. He's been on the faculty of MIT and Cornell and teaches corporate programming seminars around the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780321647498
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Publication date: 7/14/2009
Pages: 228
Sales rank: 394,663
Series: Visual QuickStart Guide Series
Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Essential jQuery 1

About jQuery 2

Getting Started with jQuery 4

Selecting Page Elements by ID 6

Selecting a Set of Elements 8

Selecting Elements by Style 10

Running Code When a Page Is Ready 12

Selecting the First of a Set of Elements 14

Showing and Hiding Page Elements 16

Selecting One of a Set of Elements 18

Specifying Elements in a Hierarchy 20

Creating Visual Effects 22

Creating New HTML Elements 24

Chapter 2 Selecting Elements the jQuery Way 27

Selector Examples 28

Meeting the Selectors 30

Selecting Direct Descendants 32

Selecting First and Last Children 34

Selecting the Nth Child 36

Selecting Elements with Specific Text 38

Selecting Elements by Attribute 40

Selecting Elements by Attribute Value 42

Checking the Type of Matched Elements 44

Selecting Elements by Position 46

Examining Checked Boxes and Radio Buttons 48

Examining Elements That the User Selected 50

Chapter 3 Working with Elements the jQuery Way 53

Function Examples 54

Looping over Elements in a Wrapped Set 56

Reading Attribute Values 58

Setting Attribute Values 60

Rewriting Elements' HTML 62

Rewriting Elements' Text 64

Appending Content to Elements 66

Moving Page Elements 68

Setting Element Width and Height 70

Wrapping Elements 72

Inserting Elements 74

Editing the value Attribute 76

Chapter 4 Working with Events 79

Event Handling in JavaScript and jQuery 80

Binding an Event Handler to an Event 82

Binding Multiple Event Handlers 84

Binding Event Handlers Using Shortcuts 86

Calling Event Handlers Only Once 88

Unbinding Event Handlers 90

Using the Event Object 92

Getting Mouse Coordinates 93

Getting theEvent Type 95

Capturing Keystorkes 97

Capturing Hover Events 99

Getting Event Targets 101

Chapter 5 Visual Effects and Animation 103

jQuery Visual Effects Overview 104

Showing and Hiding Page Elements 105

Showing and Hiding Elements with Duration 107

Toggling Element Visibility 109

Toggling Element Visibility with Duration 111

Fading Elements Out 113

Fading Elements In 115

Sliding Elements Up 117

Sliding Elements Down 119

Toggling Sliding Operations 121

Partially Fading Elements 123

Creating Custom Animation 125

Chapter 6 The jQuery Utility Functions 127

Examples of jQuery Utility Functions 128

Looping over Object Members with $.each() 129

Determining Browser Type with $.browser 131

Customizing HTML by Browser Type 133

Checking Browser Support for Specific Features 135

Creating Arrays 138

Searching an Array 140

Filtering an Array 142

Eliminating Duplicate Elements from Arrays 144

Checking Whether Data Is an Array 146

Mapping an Array 148

Trimming Text 150

Chapter 7 Jumping into Ajax 153

About Ajax 154

Working with Ajax the Standard Way 156

Using jQuery load() to Implement Ajax 158

Using Callbacks with the load() Function 160

Passing Data to the Server 162

Passing Form Data to the Server 164

Using $.post() to Send Data to the Server 166

Using the jQuery $.get() Function 168

Using $.get() to Send Data to the Server 170

Chapter 8 Using the Full Power of Ajax 173

About $.ajax() 174

Using $.ajax() to Download Text 176

Using $.ajax() to post Data to the Server 178

Using $.ajax() to Get Data from the Server 180

Handling Ajax Errors 182

Handling Ajax Timeouts 184

Handling XML 186

Handling Ajax Events Globally 188

Chapter 9 Using the jQuery Widgets 191

About Working with Widgets 192

Creating Accordion Widgets 193

Creating Datepicker Widgets 196

Creating Dialog Widgets 199

Getting Data from Dialog Widgets 202

Creating a Progressbar Widget 205

Creating a Slider Widget 208

Creating a Tab Widget 211

Adding Tabs to a Tabs Widget 214

Index 217

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tk_2012

Posted May 10, 2012

Average

Good structure, but too many typos and the examples/exercises are too dull.
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