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Learning jQuery 1.3

By : Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
Book Image

Learning jQuery 1.3

By: Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg

Overview of this book

<p>To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency. <br /><br />Revised and updated for version 1.3 of jQuery, this book teaches you the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.<br /><br />In this book, the authors share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. The book introduces jQuery and shows how you can write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. It then guides you through CSS selectors and shows how to enhance the basic event handling mechanisms to give them a more elegant syntax. You will then learn to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and also to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. You will also learn to send and retrieve information with AJAX methods. The book will then step you through many detailed, real-world examples and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Learning jQuery 1.3
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Useful blogs


New techniques and features are always being developed and introduced for any living technology. Staying on top of innovations can be easy by checking in with these sources of web development news from time to time.

The jQuery blog

John Resig and other contributors to the official jQuery blog posts announcements about new versions and other initiatives among the project team, as well as occasional tutorials and editorial pieces.

http://jquery.com/blog/

Learning jQuery

Karl Swedberg runs this blog for jQuery tutorials, techniques, and announcements. Guest authors include jQuery team members Mike Alsup and Brandon Aaron:

http://www.learningjquery.com/

Ajaxian

This frequently updated blog begun by Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith provides a tremendous amount of news and features and the occasional tutorial about JavaScript:

http://ajaxian.com/

John Resig

The creator of jQuery, John Resig, discusses advanced JavaScript topics on his personal blog:

http://ejohn.org/

JavaScript ant

This site contains a repository of articles pertaining to JavaScript and its usage in modern web browsers, as well as an organized list of JavaScript resources found elsewhere on the web:

http://javascriptant.com/

Robert's talk

Robert Nyman writes about developing for the internet, especially client-side scripting:

http://www.robertnyman.com/

Web standards with imagination

Dustin Diaz's blog features articles on web design and development, with an emphasis on JavaScript:

http://www.dustindiaz.com/

Snook

Jonathan Snook's general programming/web-development blog:

http://snook.ca/

Matt Snider JavaScript resource

Matt Snider's blog is dedicated to the understanding of JavaScript and its many popular frameworks:

http://mattsnider.com/

I can't

Three sites by Christian Heilmann provide blog entries, sample code, and lengthy articles related to JavaScript and web development:

http://icant.co.uk/

http://www.wait-till-i.com/

http://www.onlinetools.org/

DOM scripting

Jeremy Keith's blog picks up where the popular DOM scripting book leaves off—a fantastic resource for unobtrusive JavaScript:

http://domscripting.com/blog/

As days pass by

Stuart Langridge experiments with advanced use of the browser DOM:

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/

A list apart

A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices:

http://www.alistapart.com/