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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

Time for action – opening a link in a new window


  1. We'll get started with our basic HTML file and associated files and folders that we created in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. Inside the <body> of the HTML document, we'll add some links as follows:

    <h1>Opening Links in a New Window</h1>
    <p>This link will open in a new window: <a href="http://packtpub.com">New Window!</a></p>
    <p>This link will not: <a href="http://packtpub.com">Same Window!</a></p>

    This is just a heading and two simple paragraphs, each with a link—one that should open in a new window and one that won't.

  2. We need some way to select the link that should open in a new window. This is similar to the situation we would have if we wanted to style one of the links differently from the other with CSS.

    If we were using CSS, we could assign the link an ID or a class. An ID would be pretty limiting, as an ID must be unique on a page—it would only apply to this one particular...