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Learning jQuery, Third Edition

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Learning jQuery, Third Edition

Overview of this book

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.Learning jQuery Third Edition is revised and updated for version 1.6 of jQuery. You will learn 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.Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. The book will step you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Learning jQuery Third Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Event delegation


Recall that in order to implement event delegation, we check the target property of the event object to see if it matches the element that we want to trigger the behavior. The event target represents the innermost, or most deeply nested, element that is receiving the event. With our sample HTML this time, however, we are presented with a new challenge. The <div class="photo"> elements are unlikely to be the event target as they contain other elements, such as the image itself and the image details. In order to find this <div> from an element it contains, we can use the .closest() method, which works its way up the DOM from parent to parent until it finds an element that matches a given selector expression. If no elements are found, then it acts like any other DOM traversal method, returning a new "empty" jQuery object, as follows:

// Unfinished code
$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#gallery').bind('mouseover mouseout', function(event) {
    var $target = $...