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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

Adding the management console


I said at the start of this project that we wouldn't need to write any HTML or CSS. That was a minor exaggeration; we'll have to build the management console page ourselves, but don't worry, we won't have to write much – most of what we'll display on the page will be created dynamically.

Prepare for Lift Off

Create a new HTML page based on our standard template file called console.html and save it in the simplex directory that we've been working in for this project. Next create a new script file called console.js and save it in the same folder. Lastly, create a new style sheet called console.css and save it in the css folder inside the simplex directory.

We should link to the new style sheet from the <head> of our new HTML page:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/console.css" />

We should also link to jQuery and our new script file at the bottom of the <body>:

<script src="../js/jquery-1.9.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="console.js...