Learning jQuery 1.3, 2nd Edition

Book Description

Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

• An introduction to jQuery that requires minimal programming experience
• Detailed solutions to specific client-side problems
• For web designers to create interactive elements for their designs
• For developers to create the best user interface for their web applications
• Packed with great examples, code, and clear explanations
• Revised and updated version of the first book to help you learn jQuery

In Detail

To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library’s design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency.

Revised and updated for version 1.3 of jQuery, this book teaches you the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features.

In this book, the authors share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. The book introduces jQuery and shows how you can write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. It then guides you through CSS selectors and shows how to enhance the basic event handling mechanisms to give them a more elegant syntax. You will then learn to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and also to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery’s DOM modification methods. You will also learn to send and retrieve information with AJAX methods. The book will then step you through many detailed, real-world examples and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.

What you will learn from this book?

This book will give you the tools you need to be on the cutting edge of the web development community. With these techniques at your disposal, you can:

• Use selectors to get anything you want from a page
• Make things happen on your page with events
• Add flair to your actions with animation effects
• Change your page on command with DOM manipulation
• Use AJAX to get the most out of server-side code
• Transform drab, static information containers into beautiful, dynamic tables
• Breathe new life into online forms
• Create dynamic shufflers, rotators, and galleries
• Get started with official jQuery plug-ins
• Customize by writing your own jQuery plug-ins

Approach

This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions to each of them making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. Basic JavaScript programming knowledge is required. You will need to know the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries required.

中文：

书名：学习jQuery 1.3，第2版

使用简单的JavaScript技术进行更好的交互设计和Web开发

• 介绍只需要最少编程经验的jQuery
• 针对特定客户端问题的详细解决方案
• 让网页设计者为他们的设计创造交互元素
• 让开发人员为他们的Web应用程序创建最佳用户界面
• 充斥着大量的示例、代码和清晰的解释
• 第一本书的修订版和更新版，帮助您学习jQuery

In Detail

为了构建有趣、交互的站点，开发人员正转向诸如jQuery之类的JavaScript库来自动化常见任务并简化复杂任务。由于许多网站开发人员对HTML和CSS的使用经验多于对JavaScript的使用经验，因此该库的设计适合编程经验较少的设计师快速入门。经验丰富的程序员也将从它的概念一致性中受益。

这本书对jQuery 1.3版进行了修订和更新，教你jQuery的基础知识，以便向你的页面添加交互和动画。即使以前编写JavaScript的尝试让您感到困惑，这本书也将指导您克服与AJAX、事件、效果和高级JavaScript语言特性相关的陷阱。

在这本书中，作者分享了他们对jQuery的知识、经验和热情，以帮助您从库中获得最大价值，并使您的Web应用程序脱颖而出。这本书介绍了jQuery，并展示了如何用三行代码编写一个运行良好的jQuery程序。然后，它将指导您使用CSS选择器，并展示如何增强基本的事件处理机制以使其具有更优雅的语法。然后，您将学习如何通过一组简单的视觉效果为您的操作添加影响，以及使用jQuery的DOM修改方法创建、复制、重新组装和修饰内容。您还将学习如何使用AJAX方法发送和检索信息。然后，该书将向您介绍许多详细的、真实的示例，甚至会让您使用自己的插件扩展jQuery库本身。

你会从这本书中学到什么？

这本书将为您提供在Web开发社区的前沿所需的工具。有了这些可供您支配的技术，您可以：

• 使用选择器从页面获取您想要的任何内容
• 让事情在你的页面上通过事件发生
• 使用动画效果为您的动作增添才华
• 使用DOM操作根据命令更改页面
• Use AJAX to get the most out of server-side code
• 将单调的静态信息容器转换为漂亮的动态表格
• Breathe new life into online forms
• 创建动态洗牌器、旋转器和图库
• 开始使用官方jQuery插件
• 通过编写您自己的jQuery插件进行定制

方法

本书首先介绍了jQuery的教程，然后研究了常见的、真实的客户端问题以及解决方案，使其成为解答所有jQuery问题的宝贵资源。

Who this book is written for?

这本书是为想要为他们的设计创建交互元素的Web设计人员，以及想要为他们的Web应用程序创建最佳用户界面的开发人员而写的。基本的JavaScript编程知识是必需的。您将需要了解HTML和CSS的基础知识，并且应该熟悉JavaScript的语法。不需要具备jQuery知识，也不需要有使用任何其他JavaScript库的经验。