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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

Handling scrolling to the bottom of the page


Now that we've got the first page of videos, we want to add a handler that monitors the window for scroll events and detects when the page has been scrolled right to the bottom.

Engage Thrusters

First of all we need to add a couple of new variables. Change the very first set of variables near the top of the file so that they appear as follows:

var data = {},
    startIndex = 1,
    listHeight = 0,
    win = $(window),
    winHeight = win.height();

Now we need to update our renderer() function so that when the templates have been rendered we update the new listHeight variable. Add the following code after where we render the videoTemplate:

vidList.imagesLoaded(function () {
    listHeight = $("#videoList").height();
});

Next we can add a handler for the scroll event. Directly after the when() method in infinite-scroller.js, add the following code:

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

    if (win.scrollTop() + winHeight >= listHeight) {
        $("<li...