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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

The CrossSlide plugin


The CrossSlide plugin, by Tobia Conforto, makes it possible to not just fade images in and out, but to also animate panning and zooming. This plugin is ideal if you have a variety of different image sizes. For best results, the only requirement is that all images are at least as large as the slideshow viewing area. Images larger than the slideshow viewing area will be cropped. For example, if the slideshow is 600 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall, then all images used in the slideshow should be at least 600 pixels wide and 400 pixels tall.

With JavaScript disabled, the CrossSlide plugin displays whatever content you've placed into the slideshow as a placeholder. This could be a single image, or it could be an image accompanied by text, or any other sort of HTML content you'd like. The plugin will then remove this placeholder content when the page loads and replace it with the slideshow.

It is possible to provide buttons that allow site visitors to stop and restart the slideshow...