
jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide
Bring your websites to life with animations using jQuery
Packt Publishing
2nd Edition
Published on 24. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-78216-964-2 (ISBN)
Description
Bring your websites to life with animations using jQuery
Key Features
Get going with jQuery's animation methods and build a toolkit of ready-to-use animations using jQuery 2.0
Over 50 detailed examples on different types of web page animations
Create both simple and complex animations using clear, step-by-step instructions, accompanied with screenshots
Book DescriptionjQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Using the features offered by jQuery, developers are able to create dynamic web pages. jQuery empowers you with creating simple as well as complex animations.
jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide will teach you to understand animation in jQuery to produce slick and attractive interfaces that respond to your visitors' interactions. You will learn everything you need to know about creating engaging and effective web page animations using jQuery.
In jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide, each chapter starts with simple concepts that enable you to build, style, and code your way into creating beautifully engaging and interactive user interfaces.
With the use of wide range of examples, this book will teach you how to create a range of animations, from subtle UI effects (such as form validation animation and image resizing) to completely custom plugins (such as image slideshows and parallax background animations).
The book provides various examples that gradually build up your knowledge and practical experience in using the jQuery API to create stunning animations. The book uses many examples and explains how to create animations using an easy and step-by-step approach.What you will learn
Create custom animations using jQuery s animate() method
Fade, hide, shrink, and slide your animations using jQuery s built-in animation helper methods
Implement subtle UI effects, user-triggered animations and full-page feature animations to animate the user interface of your web applications
Make your background images come to life with movement and animation
Create an automatic slider animation with just a few lines of code
Discover parallax animations and how they can be used in your web projects
Simulate animation in a variety of ways using other non-animation-specific jQuery methods
Get your images scrolling in a certain direction, and at a certain speed, depending on the movements of the mouse pointer
Who this book is forIf you are a web designer or a frontend developer or if you want to learn how to animate the user interface of your web applications with jQuery, this book is for you. Experience with jQuery or Javascript would be helpful but solid knowledge base of HTML and CSS is assumed.
Key Features
Get going with jQuery's animation methods and build a toolkit of ready-to-use animations using jQuery 2.0
Over 50 detailed examples on different types of web page animations
Create both simple and complex animations using clear, step-by-step instructions, accompanied with screenshots
Book DescriptionjQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML, and is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Using the features offered by jQuery, developers are able to create dynamic web pages. jQuery empowers you with creating simple as well as complex animations.
jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide will teach you to understand animation in jQuery to produce slick and attractive interfaces that respond to your visitors' interactions. You will learn everything you need to know about creating engaging and effective web page animations using jQuery.
In jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques Beginner's Guide, each chapter starts with simple concepts that enable you to build, style, and code your way into creating beautifully engaging and interactive user interfaces.
With the use of wide range of examples, this book will teach you how to create a range of animations, from subtle UI effects (such as form validation animation and image resizing) to completely custom plugins (such as image slideshows and parallax background animations).
The book provides various examples that gradually build up your knowledge and practical experience in using the jQuery API to create stunning animations. The book uses many examples and explains how to create animations using an easy and step-by-step approach.What you will learn
Create custom animations using jQuery s animate() method
Fade, hide, shrink, and slide your animations using jQuery s built-in animation helper methods
Implement subtle UI effects, user-triggered animations and full-page feature animations to animate the user interface of your web applications
Make your background images come to life with movement and animation
Create an automatic slider animation with just a few lines of code
Discover parallax animations and how they can be used in your web projects
Simulate animation in a variety of ways using other non-animation-specific jQuery methods
Get your images scrolling in a certain direction, and at a certain speed, depending on the movements of the mouse pointer
Who this book is forIf you are a web designer or a frontend developer or if you want to learn how to animate the user interface of your web applications with jQuery, this book is for you. Experience with jQuery or Javascript would be helpful but solid knowledge base of HTML and CSS is assumed.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78216-964-2 (9781782169642)
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Bring your websites to life with animations using jQuery
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Persons
Adam Culpepper is a frontend web developer who works for Envoc, a software development firm, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is very active in his community; organizing, founding, and sitting on the board of many industry-related groups and organizations in his area. When he's not reading, writing, working, organizing, or attending a community event, he's spending time with his great friends and family or his girlfriend Amber, his son Aiden and his cat Emma. Adam can be reached at his website (www.adamculpepper.net) or through Twitter (@adamculpepper). Dan Wellman is an author and frontend engineer living on the South Coast of the UK and working in London. By day he works for Skype and has a blast writing application-grade JavaScript. By night he writes books and tutorials focused mainly on frontend web development. He is also a staff writer for the Tuts+ arm of the Envato network, and occasionally writes for .Net magazine. He's the proud father of four amazing children, and the grateful husband of a wonderful wife.
Content
Table of Contents
Getting started
Image Animation
Background animation
Navigation Animation
Form and Input Animation
Extending Animations with jQuery UI
Custom Animation
Other Popular Animations
CSS3 Animations
Canvas Animations
Getting started
Image Animation
Background animation
Navigation Animation
Form and Input Animation
Extending Animations with jQuery UI
Custom Animation
Other Popular Animations
CSS3 Animations
Canvas Animations