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ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By : Sonal Merchant, Sonal Aneel Allana
Book Image

ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By: Sonal Merchant, Sonal Aneel Allana

Overview of this book

jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that has changed the landscape of client scripting in web applications. Developed by John Resig in 2006, it has taken the web by storm because of its cross-browser compatibility and the ability to get more done with less code. It has gained popularity with ASP.NET developers and is now distributed with Visual Studio and the NuGet package manager. ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook explores the wide range of utilities that the jQuery library provides. It teaches you the nitty-gritty of plugging in these features in ASP.NET web applications. It covers every aspect of interfacing the library, right from downloading and including jQuery on web pages to selecting controls, handling events, and creating animations. This book also walks you through DOM traversal and manipulation in ASP.NET and then through visual effects and graphics in ASP.NET sites. It explores advanced features such as posting AJAX requests and writing plugins. It will provide you with all the information you need to use this library confidently with ASP.NET.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Animating the Menu control


The ASP.NET Menu control enables quick building of menus on websites. This recipe demonstrates how to add text animations, such as a blink effect and change of font color of a menu item on mouseover. The constructs used in this example are summarized in the following table:

Construct

Type

Description

$(".class")

jQuery selector

This matches all elements with the specified CSS class.

$("html_tag")

jQuery selector

This selects all elements with the specified HTML tag.

$(this)

jQuery object

This refers to the current jQuery object.

.css()

jQuery method

This gets the style property for the first matched element or sets the style property for every matched element.

.fadeIn()

jQuery method

This animates the opacity of the matched element by increasing it gradually until it reaches a value of 1, that is, it becomes opaque.

.fadeOut()

jQuery method

This animates the opacity of the matched element by decreasing it gradually until it reaches...