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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

Storing the initial position of the fixed element


Before we can fix the element in place, we'll need to know where that place is. In this task we'll obtain the current starting position of the <aside> element that we're going to be fixing in place.

Engage Thrusters

In fixed-sidebar.js we should start with the following code:

$(function() {
  
});

We can cache a couple of jQuery-selected elements at the top of our function, and to store the initial position of the fixed element, we can then add the following code within the function we just added:

var win = $(window),
    page = $("html,body"),
    wrapper = page.find("div.wrapper"),
    article = page.find("article"),
    fixedEl = page.find("aside"),
    sections = page.find("section"),
    initialPos = fixedEl.offset(),
    width = fixedEl.width(),
    percentWidth = 100 * width / wrapper.width();

Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing

We've used the same outer wrapper for our code that we used in the first project. As I mentioned then, it...