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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

Overview of this book

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS. It will take you through adding jQuery functionality to the Joomla! CMS and show how to use it to make the modules and themes more dynamic, interactive, and responsive, and add effects to your Joomla! site.The book starts by showing a plain Joomla! site without any JavaScript enhancement or features, then accompanies you through the process of site enhancement.First you will learn how to make use of third-party extensions to include jQuery features into your site. These can be image galleries, jQuery powered menus, tooltips, and many, many more. Later on you will learn how to modify your template to add some features to your Joomla! site, You will also learn to build your own jQuery-powered Joomla! extensions, and how to pack them so that you can use them in any project you like. Further, you will learn to create your own modules and components.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to enhance any Joomla! site with JavaScript and jQuery.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Going back to the admin zone


Now, back in the admin zone we can add some interesting features to make the component admin zone easier to use.

Adding tips and instructions to fill our form using JavaScript

Adding tips and instructions may not seem so important in our component, as we only have two fields: one for the title and the other for the text. But in many forms out there, some help may be very useful while filling the form.

We are going to add some notes inside these two fields for users to see what they must write. Usually, we will do that more or less as follows:

<input class="text_area" type="text" name="title" id="title" value="Sample text here" size="40"/>

However, we would face some problems if we were to use this approach. For example, if users write something and then delete it, the note won't appear again. This is something that isn't so important, but wouldn't it be better if the note would appear again if there is no text present in the input? Sure, and that's what we...