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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using mixins in Jade


Similar to partial templates in other template languages, Jade mixins are smaller template pieces that can accept parameters. Mixins are useful when generating common HTML chunks such as alert boxes, dialogs, and menus.

In this recipe we're going to compare Jade's mixins with the partial templates found in the other template languages by reimplementing the threaded conversation template. This is a recursive template that renders a threaded conversation tree.

Getting ready

We need to download jade.min.js in our recipe folder, available at https://github.com/visionmedia/jade.

How to do it...

Let's get started.

  1. Create index.html which will contain the conversation placeholder, the main conversation template, and the recursive partial thread template:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML>
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Mixins in Jade</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="list" class="conversation">
    </div...