A really good web development framework anticipates your needs. jQuery does more—it practically reads your mind. Developers fall in love with this JavaScript library the moment they see 20 lines of code reduced to three. jQuery is concise and readable. Its unique “chaining” model lets you perform multiple operations on a page element in succession, as in $(“div.elements”).addClass(“myClass”).load(“ajax_url”).fadeIn()

jQuery in Action is a fast-paced introduction and guide. It shows you how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax to your web pages. The book's unique “lab pages” anchor the explanation of each new concept in a practical example. You'll learn how jQuery interacts with other tools and frameworks and how to build jQuery plugins. This book requires a modest knowledge of JavaScript and Ajax.

WHAT'S INSIDE:

• Countless practical examples
• DOM manipulation and event handling
• Animation and UI effects
• Painless Ajax
• Based on jQuery 1.2

About the Authors

Bear Bibeault is a JavaRanch senior moderator and coauthor of Manning's Ajax in Practice and Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action.

Yehuda Katz is a developer with Engine Yard. He heads the jQuery plugin development team and runs Visual jQuery.

Book Reviews

"8/10—buy it! If you want to learn jQuery then this is an excellent book..."
—John Whish, Founder, Adobe ColdFusion User Group for Devon

"It works and makes for a very readable book that you can just breeze through very quickly and pick up and retain a lot of information."
—Rich Strahl, blogger

"I highly recommend this book to any novice or advanced JavaScript developers who finally want to get serious about JavaScript and start writing optimized and elegant code without all the hassle of traditional JavaScript code authoring."
—Val's Blog

"jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript."
—www.DZone.com

"The Elements of Style for Javascript."
—Joshua Heyer, Trane Inc.