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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

Adding event handlers for receiving files to upload


We can use the init() method that we added in the last task to attach the event handlers that our widget will need to handle files being selected for upload. This may happen either when files are dropped onto the drop target, or when they are selected using the button.

Engage Thrusters

Directly after appending the new HTML elements to the container at the end of the init() method in uploader.js (but still within the init() method), add the following code:

widget.el.on("click", "a.up-choose", function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
  
    widget.el.find("input[type='file']").click();
});

widget.el.on("drop change dragover", "article.up", function(e) {
  
    if (e.type === "dragover") {
        e.preventDefault();
        e.stopPropagation();
        return false;
    } else if (e.type === "drop") {
        e.preventDefault();
        e.stopPropagation();
        widget.files = e.originalEvent.dataTransfer.files;
    } else {
        widget...