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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 plugin wrapper


In this task we'll create the page that links to the required resources, as well as add the wrapper that our plugin will live within.

Prepare for Lift Off

At this point we should create the different files we'll need for this project. First, save a new copy of our template file in the main project folder and call it uploader.html. We'll also need a new style sheet, which should be saved in the css folder as uploader.css, and a new JavaScript file, which should be saved in the js folder as uploader.js.

The new page should link to the jQuery UI style sheet so that we get the styling required by the Progressbar widget, and also the style sheet for this project in the <head> of the page, directly after the existing link to common.css:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.10.0.custom.min.css" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/uploader.css" />

We'll also need to link to jQuery UI and the JavaScript file for this example...