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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

Time for action – adding our plugin method to the jQuery namespace


Next, we can add the code that will insert our plugin into the jQuery namespace so that it can be called like other jQuery methods. Add the following code directly above the last line in the code we just added:

$.fn.extend({
  tranzify: function(userConfig) {

    var config = (userConfig) ? $.extend({}, $.tranzify.defaults, userConfig) : $.tranzify.defaults;

    config.selector = "#" + this.attr("id");
    config.multi = parseInt(this.width()) / config.transitionWidth;

    $.tranzify.createUI(config);

    return this;
  }
});

What just happened?

jQuery provides the fn.extend() method specifically for adding new methods that can be chained to the jQuery() function, which is how most plugins are created. We defined a function as the value of the sole property of an object passed to the extend() method. We also specified that the method may take one argument, which may be a configuration object passed into the method by whoever...