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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

Preparing the underlying page


In this task we'll set up the files that we're going to use throughout this project and prepare the underlying page that our infinite scroller will reside on.

Prepare for Lift Off

As usual we'll be using a custom style sheet for this project and a custom script file, so let's add them first. Create a new JavaScript file called infinite-scroller.js and save it in the js directory. Then create a new style sheet called infinite-scoller.css and save it in the css directory. Lastly, save a copy of the template.html file in the root project folder and call it infinite-scroller.html.

Engage Thrusters

The underlying markup used by the example page will be minimal – a lot of the elements that we'll be working with will be generated dynamically by our template, which we can also add in this task.

First of all we should add references to our new files to the HTML page. Start by adding a <link> element for the style sheet to the <head> of infinite-scroller.html,...