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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

Handling the hash fragment on page load


At the moment the functionality of the browser's back button has been restored, and the visitor can see the bookmarkable URL in the address bar.

If the page is requested with a hash fragment in it, the page will automatically jump to the specified <section> when the page loads. In this part we'll add some code that checks the hash property of the document.location object and if a hash is detected, it will scroll to the corresponding part of the page smoothly.

Engage Thrusters

To enable this, we should add the following code directly after where we define our starting variables near the top of the script file, and directly before where we listen for the scroll event:

if (document.location.hash) {

    var href = document.location.hash,
        target = parseInt(href.split("#part")[1]),
        targetOffset = sections.eq(target - 1).offset().top;

    page.scrollTop(0);
    document.location.hash = "";
    scrollPage(href, targetOffset, true);

}

Objective...