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jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide

By : Natalie Maclees
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jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide

By: Natalie Maclees

Overview of this book

jQuery is awesome for designers ñ it builds easily on the CSS and HTML you already know and allows you to create impressive effects with just a few lines of code. However, without a background in programming, JavaScript ñ on which jQuery is built ñ can feel intimidating and impossible to grasp. This book will show you how simple it can be to learn the basics and then extend your capabilities by taking advantage of jQuery plugins.jQuery for Designers offers approachable lessons for designers with little or no background in JavaScript. The book begins by introducing the jQuery library and a small and simple introduction to JavaScript. Then you'll step through a few simple tasks to get your feet wet before diving into using plugins to quickly and simply add complex effects with just a few lines of code.You'll be surprised at how far you can get with JavaScript when you start with the power of the jQuery library and this book will show you how. We'll cover common interface widgets and effects such as tabbed interfaces, custom tooltips, and custom scrollbars. You'll learn how to create an animated navigation menu and how to add simple AJAX effects to enhance your site visitors' experience. Then we'll wrap up with interactive data grids which make sorting and searching data easy.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Opening links in a new window


As common as it is to open links in new windows, the practice itself is a little bit controversial. Some argue that the site visitors themselves should decide if they want to open a link in a new window, and many browsers make it easy for them to do just that. Some argue that opening a link in a new window breaks the expected behavior of the Back button and should be avoided. Others argue that not opening links in a new window is confusing and disorienting for the site visitors when they suddenly find themselves on a different website.

Wherever you stand on the issue, it's a common request from clients and the practice probably isn't going away any time soon, so it's important to know your options for handling this kind of functionality. I'm going to assume that you're aware of the issues surrounding opening a link in a new window and have carefully weighed all the options and presented an informed argument to your client.

Why not just use the target attribute...