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Learning jQuery - Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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Learning jQuery - Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency. LearningjQuery - Fourth Edition is revised and updated version of jQuery. You will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features. Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. The book will take you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Learning jQuery Fourth Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up the document


Once we have the QUnit files in place, we can set up the test HTML document. In a typical project, this file would be named index.html and placed in the same test subfolder as qunit.js and qunit.css. For this demonstration, however, we'll put it in the parent directory.

The <head> element of the document contains a <link> tag for the CSS file and <script> tags for jQuery, QUnit, the JavaScript we'll be testing (B.js), and the tests themselves (test/test.js). The <body> tag consists of two main elements for running and displaying the results of the tests.

To demonstrate QUnit, we'll use portions of Chapter 2, Selecting Elements, and Chapter 6, Sending Data with Ajax:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Appendix B Tests</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="qunit.css" media="screen">
  <script src="jquery.js"></script>
  <script src="test/qunit.js"></script>
  <script src="B.js"></script>
  <script src="test/test.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="qunit"></div>
  <div id="qunit-fixture">
    <!-- Test Markup Goes Here -->
  </div>
</body>
</html>

Since Chapter 2, Selecting Elements, code that we'll test depends on the DOM, we want the test markup to match what we're using on the actual page. We can simply copy and paste the HTML content that we used in Chapter 2, Selecting Elements, which should replace the <!-- Test Markup Goes Here --> comment.