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jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Using the features offered by jQuery, developers are able to create dynamic web pages. jQuery empowers you with creating simple as well as complex animations. jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide will teach you to understand animation in jQuery to produce slick and attractive interfaces that respond to your visitors' interactions. You will learn everything you need to know about creating engaging and effective web page animations using jQuery. In jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide, each chapter starts with simple concepts that enable you to build, style, and code your way into creating beautifully engaging and interactive user interfaces. With the use of wide range of examples, this book will teach you how to create a range of animations, from subtle UI effects (such as form validation animation and image resizing) to completely custom plugins (such as image slideshows and parallax background animations). The book provides various examples that gradually build up your knowledge and practical experience in using the jQuery API to create stunning animations. The book uses many examples and explains how to create animations using an easy and step-by-step approach.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The new effects added by jQuery UI


At the time of writing, jQuery UI gives us 14 new, predefined animation effects to use in our pages; these are listed, together with a brief description of their usage, as follows:

Animations

Description

blind

The target element is shown or hidden by rolling it down or up like a window blind.

bounce

The target element is bounced horizontally or vertically for a specified number of times.

clip

The target element is shown or hidden by moving opposing edges in towards the center of the element, or out to its full width or height.

drop

The element appears to drop onto or off of the page in order to show or hide it respectively.

explode

The explode effect causes the target element to separate into a specified number of pieces before fading away, or to fade into view in several pieces before coming together to form the complete element.

fold

The element appears to fold closed or open.

highlight

The background-color property of the target element...