Learning jQuery

	Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques
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Book Contents

Index > Chapter 1

Preface

1: Getting Started
2: Selectors—How to Get Anything You Want
3: Events—How to Pull the Trigger
4: Effects—How to Add Flair to Your Actions
5: DOM Manipulation—How to Change Your Page on Command
6: AJAX—How to Make Your Site Buzzword-Compliant
7: Table Manipulation

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8: Forms with Function
9: Shufflers and Rotators
10: Plug-ins

Appendix A: Online Resources
Appendix B: Development Tools
Appendix C: JavaScript Closures

Index

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Chapter 1: Getting Started

Up on the buzzer
Quick on the start
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
—Devo, "Let's Go"

Today's World Wide Web is a dynamic environment, and its users set a high bar for both style and function of sites. To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. One reason the jQuery library is a popular choice is its ability to assist in a wide range of tasks.

Chapter 1: Getting Started

What jQuery Does
Why jQuery Works Well
Our First jQuery Document
- Downloading jQuery
- Setting Up the HTML Document
- Writing the jQuery Code
  - Finding the Poem Text
  - Injecting the New Class
  - Executing the Code
  - The Finished Product
Summary

Paperback 380 pages
Released: July 2007
ISBN: 1847192505
ISBN 13: 978-1-847192-50-9

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