
Beginning jQuery
Jack Franklin(Author)
Apress
Published on 31. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIX, 204 pages
978-1-4302-4932-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Beginning jQuery
is your step-by-step guide to learning the jQuery library. jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in the web developer's toolkit.
Jack Franklin
takes you from the basics of getting you started with jQuery, right through to extending jQuery by writing your own plug-ins. You'll discover best practices you can follow, how you can avoid common mistakes, and you'll learn about so many of the things that jQuery has to offer, including how you can:
- Use jQuery's powerful tools to dynamically update content on your site, including DOM manipulation.
- Extend jQuery's capabilities by writing your own plugins on top of the framework.
- Animate elements and build your own jQuery slider.
- Employ best practices and avoid common errors made by beginners.
JavaScript is a powerful language but every web developer must navigate the tricky issues around cross-browser inconsistencies. Beginning jQuery teaches you how to use jQuery to avoid spending your time fixing these browser bugs - letting you concentrate on what really matters to you. Throughout Beginning jQuery , you'll discover how expressive yet concise jQuery's code is and how much quicker and efficient you can develop with jQuery!
More details
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Target group
Popular/general
Illustrations
XIX, 204 p.
Dimensions
Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 17.8 cm
Weight
394 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4302-4932-0 (9781430249320)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4302-4933-7
Schweitzer Classification
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From the Basics of jQuery to Writing your Own Plug-ins
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Person
Jack Franklin is a web developer and Computer Science student from the world heritage city of Bath, in the UK. He first started creating websites back in 2005 and has experience in a number of web languages including HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby, Python and others, although his main focus is JavaScript. He runs the popular online resource javascriptplayground.com and has released a number of open source jQuery plug-ins online.
Content
- JavaScript You Need to Know
- The Basics of jQuery
- DOM Traversal with jQuery
- DOM Manipulation with jQuery
- An Introduction to Events
- Advanced Events
- Animation
- Ajax with jQuery
- Writing a jQuery Plug-in
- Advanced jQuery Plug-ins
- Writing a Slider Plug-in