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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

Allowing different layouts to be selected


In this task of the project, we need to allow the user to select each layout supported by the page. We can do this by using a <select> box which we populate at page load with each of the different layouts.

Engage Thrusters

First of all we can add the <select> element to the page. This can go in between the search field and the button at the top of the page in console.html:

<select id="layouts"></select>

Next we need to make a request at page load to populate the <select>element with an <option> for each of the different layouts. We can do this in the click handler for the <button> that we added in console.js earlier.

It will need to go into the first branch of the conditional that checks a URL has been entered into the <input>, directly before where we set the src of the <iframe>:

$.ajax({
    url: "/heat-map.asmx/getLayouts",
    data: JSON.stringify({ url: url })
}).done(function (layouts) {

   ...