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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
Book Image

jQuery HOTSHOT

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

jQuery is used by millions of people to write JavaScript more easily and more quickly. It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery's official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book. Some of the projects that we'll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map. Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building a suitable demo page


In this task we'll prepare the demo page and the other files we'll need ready for the script.

To make the benefits of this technique obvious, we'll need to use a number of extra elements that strictly speaking aren't part of the required elements for the sidebar that we'll be fixing in place.

The sidebar that we'll use as the focus of this example will need to sit within the structure of a complete page, and to see the fixed position effect, the page will also need to be quite long.

We'll be using a range of HTML5 elements when building our demo page and you should be aware that these are not supported in older versions of some browsers. If you find that you do need to support legacy browsers, you'll need to use the html5shiv script available at Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/).

Prepare for Lift Off

We should first save a new copy of the template file to the root folder of our project and call the new file fixed-sidebar.html. We can also create a...