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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

Building the welcome page


Many apps have a welcome or home screen that the user can return to in order to select common actions. In our first task of this project, we'll build the welcome screen, which will consist of some simple page furniture such as a header, footer, a logo, and will also feature a search box and button that will trigger a call to Stack Exchange's API.

Prepare for Lift Off

At this point we can create the additional resources that we'll be using in the project. We should create a new style sheet called bounty-hunter.css in the css folder, and a new script file called bounty-hunter.js in the js folder.

We should add a <link> element to the <head> of the page for the style sheet. The following code should be added directly after the jQuery mobile style sheet (and before the jQuery mobile <script> elements):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bounty-hunter.css" />

We can add the <script> element in the usual place right before the closing </body...