Learning jQuery, 4th Edition

Book Description

Better interaction, design, and web development with simple JavaScript techniques

Overview

• An introduction to jQuery that requires minimal programming experience
• Detailed solutions to specific client-side problems
• Revised and updated version of this popular jQuery book

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.

LearningjQuery – Fourth Edition is revised and updated version of jQuery. You will learn 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.

Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery’s DOM modification methods. The book will take 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

• Create interactive elements for your web designs
• Learn how to create the best user interface for your web applications
• Use selectors in a variety of ways to get anything you want from a page
• Make things happen on your webpages with events
• Add flair to your actions with a variety of animation effects
• Discover the new features available in jQuery in this third update of this popular jQuery book

Approach

We will step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library, building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics, the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques.

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 and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries.

Jonathan Chaffer

Jonathan Chaffer is a member of Rapid Development Group, a web development firm located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work there includes overseeing and implementing projects in a wide variety of technologies, with an emphasis in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. He also leads on-site training seminars on the jQuery framework for web developers.

In the open source community, he has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is also responsible for major overhauls of Drupal’s menu system and developer API reference.

He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Selecting Elements
Chapter 3: Handling Events
Chapter 4: Styling and Animating
Chapter 5: Manipulating the DOM
Chapter 6: Sending Data with Ajax
Chapter 7: Using Plugins
Chapter 8: Developing Plugins
Chapter 9: Advanced Selectors and Traversing
Chapter 10: Advanced Events
Chapter 11: Advanced Effects
Chapter 12: Advanced DOM Manipulation
Chapter 13: Advanced Ajax

Appendix A: JavaScript Closures
Appendix B: Testing JavaScript with QUnit
Appendix C: Quick Reference

中文：

书名：学习jQuery，第4版

使用简单的JavaScript技术实现更好的交互、设计和Web开发

概述

• 介绍只需要最少编程经验的jQuery
• Detailed solutions to specific client-side problems
• Revised and updated version of this popular jQuery book

详细地说

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。

LearningjQuery&#8211；第四版是jQuery的修订和更新版本。您将学习用于向页面添加交互和动画的jQuery的基础知识。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。

从介绍jQuery开始，首先将向您展示如何用三行代码编写一个功能正常的jQuery程序。了解如何通过一组简单的视觉效果为您的操作增加影响，以及如何使用jQuery的DOM修改方法创建、复制、重新组装和修饰内容。这本书将带您了解许多详细的、真实的示例，甚至会让您用自己的插件扩展jQuery库本身。

你将从这本书中学到什么

• 为您的网页设计创建交互元素
• 了解如何为您的Web应用程序创建最佳用户界面
• 以各种方式使用选择器从页面中获取您想要的任何内容
• 用活动让事情在你的网页上发生
• 通过各种动画效果为您的动作增添才华
• 在这本广受欢迎的jQuery书籍的第三次更新中，了解jQuery中可用的新功能

方法

我们将逐步介绍jQuery库的每个核心概念，构建其功能的总体图景。一旦您彻底涵盖了基础知识，本书将返回到每个概念，以涵盖更高级的示例和技术。

这本书是为谁写的

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编程和HTML和CSS的知识是必需的。不需要了解jQuery，也不需要有使用任何其他JavaScript库的经验。

Jonathan Chaffer

乔纳森·查弗是位于密歇根州大急流城的网络开发公司Rapid Development Group的成员。他在那里的工作包括监督和实施各种技术的项目，重点是PHP、MySQL和JavaScript。他还领导针对Web开发人员的jQuery框架的现场培训研讨会。

在开放源码社区中，他非常积极地参与了Drupal CMS项目，该项目采用了jQuery作为其首选的JavaScript框架。他是Content Construction Kit的创建者，这是一个在Drupal站点上管理结构化内容的流行模块。他还负责对Drupal的菜单系统和开发人员API参考进行重大改革。

He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

目录表

第1章：入门
Chapter 2: Selecting Elements
第三章：处理事件
第4章：样式设置和动画制作
第5章：操作DOM
第6章：使用AJAX发送数据
第7章：使用插件
第8章：开发插件
第9章：高级选择器和遍历
第十章：高级活动
第11章：高级特效
第12章：高级DOM操作
第13章：高级AJAX

附录A：JavaScript闭包
附录B：使用QUnit测试JavaScript
附录C：快速参考