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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 – scrollable HTML


Follow these steps to set up a simple HTML page with a scrollable area:

  1. We'll start off with setting up a basic HTML page and associated files and folders, just like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. We need to have an area of content that's large enough to scroll, so we'll add several paragraphs of text to the body of the HTML document:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
           <title>Custom Scrollbars</title>
           <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/styles.css"/>
    </head>
    <body>
    
    <h2>We don't want this box of content to get too long, so we'll make it scroll:</h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
    Include several paragraphs of lorem ipsum here
    ...mollis arcu tincidunt.</p>
    <script src="scripts/jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="scripts/scripts.js"></script>
    </body>
    </html>

    I have not included it all, but I have included five long paragraphs of lorem...