Book Image

KnockoutJS by Example

By : Adnan Jaswal
Book Image

KnockoutJS by Example

By: Adnan Jaswal

Overview of this book

KnockoutJS By Example is a project-based guide that introduces the key features and concepts of knockout.js. It helps you create an application skeleton and a Hello World application. You will develop a To-Do list application that aims to show the basic features of knockout.js in action, such as data binding and observables, following which you will develop a dynamic online customer registration form that captures and validates customer information. This book will further walk you through developing a customer banking portal, which demonstrates the use of knockout.js with components such as navigation bars, tabs, carousels, master details view, panels, forms, and wizards. You will also discover how to use token-based authentication and authorization to secure the customer banking portal, and move on to creating an editable products grid with CRUD operations. Finally, you will explore how to use the Google Maps API with knockout.js. KnockoutJS By Example will not only leave you with a basic understanding of knockout.js fundamentals but also take you through some of the advanced features. It will help you get a web application up and ready instantly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
KnockoutJS by Example
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Capturing interests


The fifth feature of our customer registration form application is to capture the customer's interests. The interest categories are sports, news, movies, and comedy. We will capture the interests using checkboxes.

Let's start by creating the interests attribute in our customer model. This attribute will hold the values of the interests selected by the customer. This attribute will be an observable array as we need to allow the customer to select multiple interest categories. Add the following code to the customer model:

interests: ko.observableArray()

We will now update the view to add the checkboxes and bind them to the interests attribute. Add a fieldset element and interests section header, similar to the previous sections. Add a div element, which will hold our interest checkboxes. Add the interest checkboxes and give them values of the interest categories. Bind the checkboxes to the interests attribute of the model. The interests fieldset should look similar to this...