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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

Showing heat maps for each layout


Now that we have each of the layouts in the <select> element, we can wire it up so that when the selected layout is changed, the page is updated to show the heat map for that layout.

Engage Thrusters

In this task we'll need to modify some of the code written in a previous task. We need to change the click handler for the <button> so that the layout isn't hardcoded into the request.

First of all we need to pass the len variable to the handler for the iframeloaded event. We can do this by adding a second argument to the trigger() method:

$(this).trigger("iframeloaded", { len: len });

Now we need to update the callback function so that this object is received by the function:

doc.on("iframeloaded", function (e, maxLayouts) {

Now, we can change the bit where we hardcoded layout 4 into the data passed to the server when making the request for click data:

data: JSON.stringify({ url: url, layout: maxLayouts.len + 1 }),

Now we're ready to update the heat map...