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jQuery Essentials

By : Troy Miles
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jQuery Essentials

By: Troy Miles

Overview of this book

<p>JQuery is still the most popular JavaScript library. It is used in over 60% of the top websites on the Internet. It was written to make DOM manipulation (so, moving things around a web page) easier for developers. It acts through JavaScript to ascribe HTML elements to the DOM attributes. Because it is a library of predefined functions, all you need to start using jQuery is a working knowledge of the syntax and a reference for the functions available to you.</p> <p>This practical guide shows you how to make the most of jQuery to boost the performance of your websites and applications. We start off with a quick glance through the basics of JQuery, followed by the explanation of JQuery selectors, filters, and DOM element manipulation. After this, you will learn how events and animations can be used to create and design beautiful and user-friendly sites. Next, you will be familiarized with Ajax functions to help you send and receive data from your server. Finally, we’ll walk you through using built-in plugins and eventually create your own plugins for your websites.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will be able to to build robust and efficient websites successfully using JQuery.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
jQuery Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, speaker, and author of several books and articles. He has over 18 years of industry experience in IT with more than 10 years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. He was selected as MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) a number of times and also as Community Credit Winner at www.community-credit.com several times. He has authored the following books:

  • Entity Framework Tutorial Second Edition, Packt Publishing

  • ASP.NET Web API – Build RESTful Web Applications and Services on the .NET Framework, Packt Publishing

  • Visual Studio Six in One, Wrox Publishers

  • ASP.NET 4.0 Programming, Mc-Graw Hill Publishing

  • Entity Framework Tutorial, Packt Publishing

  • Pro Sync Framework, APRESS

  • Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing

  • ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials, Packt Publishing

Joydip has authored more than 300 articles for some of the most reputable sites, such as www.msdn.microsoft.com, www.code-magazine.com, www.asptoday.com, www.devx.com, www.ddj.com, www.aspalliance.com, www.aspnetpro.com, www.sql-server-performance.com, www.sswug.com, among others. A lot of these articles have been selected for www.asp.net: Microsoft's Official Site on ASP.NET.

He has years of experience in designing and architecting solutions for various domains. His technical strengths include C, C++, VC++, Java, C#, Microsoft .NET, Ajax, WCF, Web API, REST, SOA, Design Patterns, SQL Server, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture.

He blogs at http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joydip and http://www.infoworld.com/blog/microsoft-coder. His website is located at www.joydipkanjilal.com. You can contact him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/joydipkanjilal, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joydipkanjilal, and on LinkedIn at http://in.linkedin.com/in/joydipkanjilal.

Anirudh Prabhu is a software engineer with over 5 years of industry experience.

He specializes in technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, and SASS, and he also has knowledge of CoffeeScript and AngularJS.

In addition to web development, he has been involved in building training material and writing tutorials for twenty19 (http://www.twenty19.com/) for the technologies that have been mentioned.

Anirudh has authored Beginning CSS Preprocessors With Sass, Compass, and Less, Apress (http://www.apress.com/9781484213483).

Besides Packt Publishing, he has been associated with Apress and Manning Publications as a technical reviewer for several titles.