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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 – customizing qTips


Let's take a look at the options we have for customizing the appearance of qTip's tooltips:

  1. Let's say that we want to change the position of the tooltip. qTip gives us plenty of options for positioning our tooltips on our page.

  2. We can match up any of these points on the tooltip to any of these points on the link:

  3. In this example, we'll match up the middle of the link's right side with the middle of the tooltip's left side, so that the tooltip appears directly to the right of the link. We simply need to pass some additional information to the qTip() method. We'll keep working with the files we set up in the last example. Open your scripts.js file and pass this additional information to the qtip() method:

    $('a[title]').qtip({
       position: {
          my: 'center left',
          at: 'center right'
    }
    });

    The developer's goal was for this to make sense in plain language. Speaking from the tooltip's point of view, we're going to align my center-left at the link's center...