contents
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the authors
about the title
about the cover illustration
- 1 Introducing jQuery
- 1.1 Why jQuery?
- 1.2 Unobtrusive JavaScript
- 1.3 jQuery fundamentals
- The jQuery wrapper
- Utility functions
- The document ready handler
- Making DOM elements
- Extending jQuery
- Using jQuery with other libraries
- 1.4 Summary
- 2 Creating the wrapped element set
- 2.1 Selecting elements for manipulation
- Using basic CSS selectors
- Using child, container, and attribute selectors
- Selecting by position
- Using custom jQuery selectors
- 2.2 Generating new HTML
- 2.3 Managing the wrapped element set
- Determining the size of the wrapped set
- Obtaining elements from the wrapped set
- Slicing and dicing the wrapped element set
- Getting wrapped sets using relationships
- Even more ways to use a wrapped set
- Managing jQuery chains
- 2.4 Summary
- 3 Bringing pages to life with jQuery
- 3.1 Manipulating element properties and attributes
- Manipulating element properties
- Fetching attribute values
- Setting attribute values
- Removing attributes
- Fun with attributes
- 3.2 Changing element styling
- Adding and removing class names
- Getting and setting styles
- More useful style-related commands
- 3.3 Setting element content
- Replacing HTML or text content
- Moving and copying elements
- Wrapping elements
- Removing elements
- Cloning elements
- 3.4 Dealing with form element values
- 3.5 Summary
- 4 Events are where it happens!
- 4.1 Understanding the browser event models
- The DOM Level 0 Event Model
- The DOM Level 2 Event Model
- The Internet Explorer Event Model
- 4.2 The jQuery Event Model
- Binding event handlers using jQuery
- Removing event handlers
- Inspecting the Event instance
- Affecting the event propagation
- Triggering event handlers
- Other event-related commands
- 4.3 Putting events (and more) to work
- 4.4 Summary
- 5 Sprucing up with animations and effects
- 5.1 Showing and hiding elements
- Implementing a collapsible list
- Toggling the display state of elements
- 5.2 Animating the display state of elements
- Showing and hiding elements gradually
- Fading elements into and out of existence
- Sliding elements up and down
- Stopping animations
- 5.3 Creating custom animations
- A custom scale animation
- A custom drop animation
- A custom puff animation
- 5.4 Summary
- 6 jQuery utility functions
- 6.1 Using the jQuery flags
- Detecting the user agent
- Determining the box model
- Detecting the correct float style to use
- 6.2 Using other libraries with jQuery
- 6.3 Manipulating JavaScript objects and collections
- Trimming strings
- Iterating through properties and collections
- Filtering arrays
- Translating arrays
- More fun with JavaScript arrays
- Extending objects
- 6.4 Dynamically loading scripts
- 6.5 Summary
- 7 Extending jQuery with custom plugins
- 7.1 Why extend?
- 7.2 The jQuery plugin authoring guidelines
- Naming files and functions
- Beware the $
- Taming complex parameter lists
- 7.3 Writing custom utility functions
- Creating a data manipulation utility function
- Writing a date formatter
- 7.4 Adding new wrapper methods
- Applying multiple operations in a wrapper method
- Retaining state within a wrapper method
- 7.5 Summary
- 8 Talk to the server with Ajax
- 8.1 Brushing up on Ajax
- Creating an XHR instance
- Initiating the request
- Keeping track of progress
- Getting the response
- 8.2 Loading content into elements
- Loading content with jQuery
- Loading dynamic inventory data
- 8.3 Making GET and POST requests
- Getting data with jQuery
- Getting JSON data
- Making POST requests
- 8.4 Taking full control of an Ajax request
- Making Ajax requests with all the trimmings
- Setting request defaults
- Global functions
- 8.5 Putting it all together
- Implementing the flyout behavior
- Using The Termifier
- Room for improvement
- 8.6 Summary
- 9 Prominent, powerful, and practical plugins
- 9.1 The Form Plugin
- Getting form control values
- Clearing and resetting form controls
- Submitting forms through Ajax
- Uploading files
- 9.2 The Dimensions Plugin
- Extended width and height methods
- Getting scroll dimensions
- Of offsets and positions
- 9.3 The Live Query Plugin
- Establishing proactive event handlers
- Defining match and mismatch listeners
- Forcing Live Query evaluation
- Expiring Live Query listeners
- 9.4 Introduction to the UI Plugin
- Mouse interactions
- UI widgets and visual effects
- 9.5 Summary
- 9.6 The end?
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- appendix JavaScript that you need to know but might not!
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