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jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide

By : Natalie Maclees
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jQuery for Designers: Beginner's Guide

By: Natalie Maclees

Overview of this book

jQuery is awesome for designers ñ it builds easily on the CSS and HTML you already know and allows you to create impressive effects with just a few lines of code. However, without a background in programming, JavaScript ñ on which jQuery is built ñ can feel intimidating and impossible to grasp. This book will show you how simple it can be to learn the basics and then extend your capabilities by taking advantage of jQuery plugins.jQuery for Designers offers approachable lessons for designers with little or no background in JavaScript. The book begins by introducing the jQuery library and a small and simple introduction to JavaScript. Then you'll step through a few simple tasks to get your feet wet before diving into using plugins to quickly and simply add complex effects with just a few lines of code.You'll be surprised at how far you can get with JavaScript when you start with the power of the jQuery library and this book will show you how. We'll cover common interface widgets and effects such as tabbed interfaces, custom tooltips, and custom scrollbars. You'll learn how to create an animated navigation menu and how to add simple AJAX effects to enhance your site visitors' experience. Then we'll wrap up with interactive data grids which make sorting and searching data easy.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – adding uniform for styling the unstylable


Follow these steps to use the Uniform plugin to gain styling control over your form elements:

  1. Let's get the Uniform plugin and take a look at how that works. Head over to http://uniformjs.com/ and click on the big Download Uniform button.

  2. Unzip the folder and take a look inside.

    This is pretty straightforward, right? Some styles, a demo, some images, and two versions of the Uniform plugin—one minified and one not. We've seen this before.

    By default, Uniform comes with a default stylesheet and images. However, other styles are available. Back on uniformjs.com, if you click on Themes in the navigation, you'll see the themes that are currently available. I really like the look of Aristo, so I'm going to download that.

    This gets me a simple ZIP file with just some css and images inside:

  3. Next, we need to get these files into our own project and attached to our HTML page. Let's start with the JavaScript. Copy jquery.uniform.min.js to your own...