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jQuery HOTSHOT

By : Dan Wellman
Book Image

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

Uploading the selected files


We now have a list of files attached to the instance of our plugin ready to be uploaded. In this task we'll do just that and upload the files asynchronously using jQuery. This behavior will be tied to the Upload files button that we added to the markup generated by the plugin.

We can also use this task to update our Progressbars with the current progress of each file being uploaded.

Engage Thrusters

As this is another event handler, we'll add it in the init() method along with all of the other event handlers so that they're all kept in one place. Add the following code at the end of the init() method, after the existing event handlers:

widget.el.on("click", "a.up-upload", function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();

  widget.uploadFiles();
}); 

Next add the new uploadFiles() method. This can go after the progress-related methods that we added in the last task:

Up.prototype.uploadFiles = function() {
    var widget = this,
    a = widget.el.find("a.up-upload");

    if (...