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This book covers jQuery including a developer-level introduction and an in-depth look into some of the more advanced features. The book focuses on features available as of jQuery 1.7.1. but also tries to incorporate feature support in older versions of the library wherever it is relevant.
The first few chapters will help you set up a development environment and review important JavaScript concepts. Detailed coverage includes:
functions that make up the library and usages of the core jQuery functionsin-depth to select and manipulate HTML elements with jQuerythe cross-browser ability to bind and manage browser eventsAjaxshortcuts jQuery offers for animating components in your web applications including moving, fading, toggling, and resizing elementsjQuery UI, which is an associated user interface library for jQuery and contains things such as widgets, effects, animations, and interactionsadditional jQuery UI features including moving, sorting, resizing, and selection elements with a mousetechniques, best practices, and patterns that you can apply to your code to make it more efficient, maintainable, and clearjQuery Template pluginauthoring jQuery plugins.jQuery Deferred Objectunit testing and detail of the specific unit testing framework created by and used by the jQuery project itself, QUnit.If you have experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, this book is for you. For existing jQuery users, it will expand your jQuery knowledge by focusing on the core library with the benefit of strong core JavaScript expertise in many of the lessons. But this book is not aimed at beginners. For those looking to start with the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery development, Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery by Richard York will most likely help you more.
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Cesar Otero is a freelance web developer currently living in Mountain View, California, and his technical interests include Python, Django, JavaScript, and jQuery. He occasionally contributes articles to IBM's developer works and holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico.
Rob Larsen has more than 12 years' experience as a front end engineer and team leader, building websites and applications for some of the world's biggest brands. He is currently a Senior Specialist, Platform at Sapient Global Markets. Rob is an active writer and speaker on web technology with a special focus on emerging standards like HTML5, CSS3, and the ongoing evolution of JavaScript.
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PART I JQUERY FUNDAMENTALS
CHAPTER 1 Getting Started 3
CHAPTER 2 JavaScript Primer 19
CHAPTER 3 The jQuery Core 41
CHAPTER 4 DOM Element Selection and Manipulation 63
CHAPTER 5 Event Handling 95
CHAPTER 6 HTML Forms, Data, and Ajax 119
CHAPTER 7 Animations and Effects 141
PART II APPLIED JQUERY
CHAPTER 8 jQuery UI Part I—Making Things Look Slick 155
CHAPTER 9 jQuery UI Part II—Mouse Interactions 179
CHAPTER 10 Writing Effective jQuery Code 195
CHAPTER 11 jQuery Templates 221
CHAPTER 12 Writing jQuery Plugins 241
CHAPTER 13 Advanced Asynchronous Programming with jQuery Deferred 263
CHAPTER 14 Unit Testing with QUnit 281
APPENDIX Plugins Used In this Book 303
INDEX 305
