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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
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jQuery HOTSHOT

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

jQuery is used by millions of people to write JavaScript more easily and more quickly. It has become the standard tool for web developers and designers to add dynamic, interactive elements to their sites, smoothing out browser inconsistencies and reducing costly development time.jQuery Hotshot walks you step by step through 10 projects designed to familiarise you with the jQuery library and related technologies. Each project focuses on a particular subject or section of the API, but also looks at something related, like jQuery's official templates, or an HTML5 feature like localStorage. Build your knowledge of jQuery and related technologies.Learn a large swathe of the API, up to and including jQuery 1.9, by completing the ten individual projects covered in the book. Some of the projects that we'll work through over the course of this book include a drag-and-drop puzzle game, a browser extension, a multi-file drag-and-drop uploader, an infinite scroller, a sortable table, and a heat map. Learn which jQuery methods and techniques to use in which situations with jQuery Hotshots.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Rendering the initial table


In our first task of the project, we'll build a super-simple ViewModel, add a basic View, and render the Model into a bare <table> without any enhancements or additional functionality. This will allow us to familiarize ourselves with some of the basic principles of Knockout, without dropping us in at the deep end.

Prepare for Lift Off

At this point we create the files we'll be using in this project. Save a copy of the template file as sortable-table.html in the root project directory.

We'll also need a style sheet called sortable-table.css, which we should save in the css folder, and a JavaScript file called sortable-table.js, which should of course be saved in the js directory.

The HTML file should link to each of these resources, as well as the knockout-2.2.1.js file. The style sheet should be linked to directly after common.css, which we've used in most of the projects in the book so far, while knockout.js, table-data.js, and the custom script file for this...