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jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials-Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Raymond Camden, Matthews
Book Image

jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials-Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Raymond Camden, Matthews

Overview of this book

jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based touch-optimized web framework. jQuery Mobile can be used to build responsive cross-platform websites and apps for a wide range of smartphones, tablets, and desktop devices. The jQuery Mobile framework can be integrated with other mobile app frameworks such as PhoneGap, IBM Worklight, and more. Introduction to jQuery Mobile explains how to add the framework to your HTML pages to create rich, mobile-optimized web pages with minimal effort. You’ll learn how to use jQuery Mobile’s automatic enhancements and configure the framework for customized, powerful mobile-friendly websites. We then dig into forms, events, and styling. You'll see how jQuery Mobile automatically enhances content, and will find out how to use the JavaScript API to build complex sites. We’ll introduce you to how jQuery Mobile can be themed as well looking into how JavaScript can be used for deep sets of customizations. The examples are ready to run and can be used to help kick-start your own site. Along the way, you will leverage all the concepts you learn to build three sample mobile applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 1. Preparing Your First jQuery Mobile Project

You know what jQuery Mobile is, the history of it, as well as its features and goals. Now, we're actually going to build our first jQuery Mobile website (well, web page) and see how easy it is to use.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Creating a simple HTML page
  • Adding jQuery Mobile to the page
  • Updating the HTML to make use of the data attributes jQuery Mobile recognizes