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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By: Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Web Developer's Reference Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays
Index

jQuery plugins


Plugins are used to create a modular part of an application using various elements that can be used in multiple projects. Here is a simple demonstration:

(function( $ ) {
  $.myFunc.showLinkLocation = function() {
    this.filter( "a" ).append(function() {
      return " (" + this.href + ")";
    });
    return this;
  };
}( jQuery ));

Note

For more support on creating custom plugins, you can visit https://learn.jquery.com/plugins/basic-plugin-creation/.

The jQuery community is huge. Developers have made some really great jQuery plugins and extensions that you can use in your projects. All these projects are available free of cost; however, there are some paid options too. The following are some great jQuery plugins:

  • NIVO Slider: This is one of the oldest and most popular image gallery plugins by Dev7Studios. It has a built-in image cropping system and comes with many themes and visual transitions.

  • nanoGALLERY: This is another great image gallery plugin that comes with navigation...