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ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By : Sonal Merchant, Sonal Aneel Allana
Book Image

ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By: Sonal Merchant, Sonal Aneel Allana

Overview of this book

jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that has changed the landscape of client scripting in web applications. Developed by John Resig in 2006, it has taken the web by storm because of its cross-browser compatibility and the ability to get more done with less code. It has gained popularity with ASP.NET developers and is now distributed with Visual Studio and the NuGet package manager. ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook explores the wide range of utilities that the jQuery library provides. It teaches you the nitty-gritty of plugging in these features in ASP.NET web applications. It covers every aspect of interfacing the library, right from downloading and including jQuery on web pages to selecting controls, handling events, and creating animations. This book also walks you through DOM traversal and manipulation in ASP.NET and then through visual effects and graphics in ASP.NET sites. It explores advanced features such as posting AJAX requests and writing plugins. It will provide you with all the information you need to use this library confidently with ASP.NET.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making Ajax calls to a controller action


Ajax calls can also be made to a Controller action in ASP.NET MVC applications. In this example, let's post a request to the controller action from a View. The constructs used in this example are summarized in the following table:

Construct

Type

Description

$("#identifier")

jQuery selector

This selects an element based on its ID.

$.ajax()

jQuery function

This posts an Ajax request to the server with the set options.

change

jQuery event

This is fired when the value of an element changes. It corresponds to the JavaScript change event.

.on()

jQuery event binder

This attaches an event handler for one or more events to the matched elements.

.text()

jQuery method

This returns the combined text content of each of the matched elements or sets the text content of every matched element.

.trim()

JavaScript function

This removes whitespaces from the beginning and end of a string.

.val()

jQuery method

This returns the value...