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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

Showing other content in tooltips


So far we've seen how we can customize the appearance of qTip's tooltips, controlling their appearance, animation, and position. However, we've only used the tooltips to show text, namely the text we've placed inside a link's title attribute. We have a lot of more powerful options, though. We can load just about any content we'd like into our tooltips. We can also make sure the tooltips appear when an item is clicked instead of hovered over. Let's take a look at how we can load in content from another HTML page into our tooltips when we click on a link.

In this section, we'll dive into using Ajax for the first time. In case you aren't familiar, Ajax is a method for fetching some new content from the server and displaying it to the site visitor without having to completely refresh the page. Because the browser is only getting and displaying just the bit of information the site visitor needs, it's often much faster and snappier.

Just a quick note before we dive...