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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 paging


For our last task we'll look at wiring up the paging elements we added earlier. The Stack Exchange API makes it easy to get results in a paged format, so we can leverage that to our advantage.

The trade-off for requesting all available data from Stack Exchange, saving ourselves that massive one-off hit, is that we make much smaller requests in response to the user initiating a request for more data.

Engage Thrusters

Directly after the click handler we added for the <li> elements inside the Listview, add the following code:

$("a[data-icon='forward'], a[data-icon='back']").on("click", function () {

    var button = $(this),
        dir = button.attr("data-icon"),
        page = parseInt($("span.num").eq(0).text(), 10);

    if (dir === "forward") {
        page++;
    } else {
        page--;
    }

    getBounties(page, function (newData) {

        data = newData;
        data.currentPage = page;
        localStorage.setItem("res", JSON.stringify(newData));

        $...