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jQuery in Action, Second Edition Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz MEAP Began: June 2009 Softbound print: May 2010 | 475 pages ISBN: 9781935182320 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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1: Introducing jQuery - FREE 2 Selecting the elements to act upon - AVAILABLE 3 Bringing pages to life with jQuery - AVAILABLE 4 Events are where it happens - AVAILABLE 5 Sprucing up with animations and effects - AVAILABLE 6 jQuery utility functions - AVAILABLE 7 Extending jQuery with custom plug-ins - AVAILABLE 8 Talk to the server with Ajax - AVAILABLE 9 jQuery UI 10 Prominent, powerful, and practical plug-ins Appendix: JavaScript you need to know, but might not |
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DESCRIPTION
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. And with version 1.4, there's even more to love about jQuery, including new effects and events, usability improvements, and more testing options.
jQuery in Action, Second Edition is a fast-paced introduction and guide. Building on the bestselling first edition, it adds new examples, more labs, and deeper explanations of important features. You’ll learn 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
- Fully updated to cover jQuery 1.4
About the Author
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.
Praise for the First edition of jQuery in Action
“Thanks to the authors Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz and their exemplary style, this comprehensive book, or operating manual as it might be called, can be taken in a front-to-back approach to learn from scratch, or as a reference to those already dabbling in jQuery and needing verification of best practices.”
—Matthew McCullough, Denver Open Source Users Group
“With its capable technical coverage, extensive use of sample code, and approachable style, jQuery in Action is a valuable resource for any Web developer seeking to maximize the power of JavaScript, and a must-have for anyone interested in learning jQuery.”
—Michael J. Ross, Web Developer, Slashdot Contributor
“I think that jQuery in Action is an excellent book that will help you learn and understand jQuery. I certainly enjoyed reading the book.”
—Gunnar Hillert, Atlanta Java User Group
“This is an excellent work, a worthy successor to others in Manning's "In Action" series. It is highly readable and chock-full of working code. The Lab pages are a marvelous way to explore the library, which should become an important part of every web developer's arsenal. Five stars all 'round!”
—David Sills, JavaLobby, DZone
“I highly recommend the book for learning the fundamentals of jQuery and then serving as a good reference book as you leverage the power of jQuery more and more in your daily development.”
—David Hayden, MVP C#, Codebetter.com
“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.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of jQuery in Action, Second Edition enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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