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Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By : Gilberto Crespo
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Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By: Gilberto Crespo

Overview of this book

<p>Owing to the different types of devices that offer Internet browsing today, responsive web designing has become a booming area. The heightened use of CSS3 and JavaScript libraries such as jQuery has led to shorter responsive web design times. You can now create a responsive website swiftly that works richly in any device a user might possess.</p> <p>"Responsive Web Design with jQuery" is a practical book focused on saving your development time using the useful jQuery plugins made by the frontend community. Follow the chapters, and learn to design and augment a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book presents a practical know how of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of frontend web development.</p> <p>This book helps you implement the concept of responsive web design in clear, gradual, and consistent steps, demonstrating each solution, and driving you to practice it and avoid common mistakes.</p> <p>You will learn how to build a responsive website; right from its structure, conception, and adapting it to screen device width. We will also take a look at different types of menu navigation and how to convert text, images, and tables so as as to display them graciously on different devices. Features such as the carousel slider and form elements will also be covered, including the testing phase and the measures to create correct fallbacks for old browsers.</p> <p>With "Responsive Web Design with jQuery", you will learn to create responsive websites quickly by using CSS3 and the incredible jQuery plugins. You will also learn to save your time by tailoring solutions created and tested by the community.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Types and attributes of form inputs


The use of HTML5 input types brought two main advantages of developing to the front: reduction of development time and improvement of user experience. Many modern browsers have already adopted these new input types and attributes and the entire web community is benefited from it, facilitating the spread of its usage.

The most frequently used HTML5 input types are email, date, tel, number, and time. Also, the most common attributes that come with HTML5 are placeholder, required, autocomplete, and multiple. We will see in Chapter 10, Ensuring Browser Support, that not all web browsers support HTML5 features the same way and require jQuery intervention to provide the proper support.

However, it still depends on jQuery technology to display features such as autocomplete and other more complex validation. Normally, jQuery plugins work really well with the new HTML5 input types, being almost mandatory for responsive websites. Before starting the implementation...