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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
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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

Restoring the browser's back button


At this point, we can click any of the links in the <aside> element and the page will be smoothly scrolled to the desired location on the page. The address bar of the browser will also be updated.

However, if the user tries to go back to a previous <section> using the back button of his/her browser, nothing will happen. In this task we'll fix that so that the back button works as expected, and can even use smooth scrolling when the back button is used to go back to the previous <section>.

Engage Thrusters

We can enable the back button very easily by adding another event handler directly after the one for click events that we just added:

win.on("hashchange", function () {

    var href = document.location.hash,
        target = parseInt(href.split("#part")[1]),
        targetOffset = (!href) ? 0 : sections.eq(target - 1).offset().top;

    scrollPage(href, targetOffset, false);
});

Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing

We use jQuery's on() method...