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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 – setting a fixed size


Follow these steps to set a fixed width and height for the Colorbox:

  1. Open up your scripts.js file. We're going to make a few changes to our code to set a fixed width and height for the Colorbox:

    $('a[rel="ireland"]').colorbox({
           transition: 'none',
           width:	'90%',
           height: '60%'
    });

    Now if you refresh the page in the browser, you'll see that the Colorbox remains the same size. No matter what size the images or the browser window is, the Colorbox will always fill 90% of the width and 60% of the height of the browser window. The images inside resize proportionally to fit into the available space if they are too large.

What just happened?

We set the width and height settings to percentage values. This is a really helpful option if you have large photos that could potentially be larger than your site visitor's browser window. Setting the width and height to percentage values ensures that in this case, the Colorbox will be 90% of the width and...