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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

Creating the page and interface


In our first task we can add the different containers for the map, and the initial UI elements needed by the page. We can also add some basic styling to lay things out as we want.

Engage Thrusters

We should add the following elements to the <body> element in the google-map.html page that we just set up:

<div id="map"></div>
<div id="ui">
    <h1>I Am Mover</h1>
    <p>Enter the weight of your goods below and click on two 
    different places on the map to see the distance between 
    them and the cost of moving your goods.</p>
    <h3>Our charges</h3>
    <dl class="clearfix">
        <dt>Base rate (per mile)</dt>
        <dd>&pound;3</dd>
        <dt>Cost per kg per mile</dt>
        <dd>&pound;0.25</dd>
    </dl>
    <input id="weight" placeholder="Weight (kg)" />
</div>

For some basic styling and to lay out the page ready...