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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

Mission Accomplished


In this project we looked at a very simple way of mimicking CSS's position:fixed styling to fix an important element into place. The technique to only apply the fixed positioning when the page starts to scroll is simple but effective, and is an excellent way to circumvent the shortcomings of actual position:fixed when working with complex or liquid layouts.

We saw how to handle window resizes and added a smooth scrolling facility that scrolled the page between different named sections of the page.

We also looked at how we can read and write to the document.location.hash property of the window object, and how to manually scroll to the requested section when the page is loaded. We also fixed the browser's back button to work with our smooth-scrolling animations.