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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

CSS3 2D transforms


CSS3 defines a style property called transform which allows us to transform targeted elements in a two-dimensional space along the x and y axes. A range of transform functions can be supplied as the value of the transform property, which dictates how the transformation should be applied. The following 2D transform functions are defined:

Function

Example usage

Description of the transform

matrix

matrix(a, b, c, d, tx, ty)

It rotates, scales, skews, or translates the element according to the combination of the supplied parameters.

rotate

rotate(x)

It rotates the element with a specified number of degree around the transform-origin. By default, the origin should be the center of the element.

scale

scale(x, y)

It scales the element with the specified number of units along the x and y axes. If y is not supplied, it is assumed to be the same as x.

scaleX

scale(x)

It scales the element with the specified number of units along the x axis.

scaleY

scale(y)

It scales...