Learning jQuery 1.3 Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Selectors
Chapter 3: Events
Chapter 4: Effects
Chapter 5: DOM Manipulation
Chapter 6: AJAX
Chapter 7: Table Manipulation
Chapter 8: Forms with Function
Chapter 9: Shufflers and Rotators
Chapter 10: Using Plugins
Chapter 11: Developing plugins
Appendix A: Online Resources
Appendix B: Development Tools
Appendix C: JavaScript Closures
Appendix D: Quick Reference
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started
  • What jQuery does
  • Why jQuery works well
  • History of the jQuery project
  • Our first jQuery-powered web page
    • Downloading jQuery
    • Setting up the HTML document
    • Adding jQuery
      • Finding the poem text
      • Injecting the new class
      • Executing the code
    • The finished product
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Selectors
  • The Document Object Model
  • The $() factory function
  • CSS selectors
    • Styling list-item levels

• Attribute selectors
  • Styling links

• Custom selectors
  • Styling alternate rows
  • Form selectors

• DOM traversal methods
  • Styling specific cells
  • Chaining

• Accessing DOM elements
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Events
  • Performing tasks on page load
    • Timing of code execution
    • Multiple scripts on one page
    • Shortcuts for code brevity
    • Coexisting with other libraries
  • Simple events
    • A simple style switcher
      • Enabling the other buttons
      • Event handler context
      • Further consolidation
    • Shorthand events
  • Compound events
    • Showing and hiding advanced features
    • Highlighting clickable items
  • The journey of an event
    • Side effects of event bubbling
  • Altering the journey: the event object
    • Event targets
    • Stopping event propagation
    • Default actions
    • Event delegation
  • Removing an event handler
    • Event namespacing
    • Rebinding events
  • Simulating user interaction
    • Keyboard events
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Effects
  • Inline CSS modification
  • Basic hide and show
  • Effects and speed
    • Speeding in
    • Fading in and fading out
  • Compound effects
  • Creating custom animations
    • Toggling the fade
    • Animating multiple properties
      • Positioning with CSS
  • Simultaneous versus queued effects
    • Working with a single set of elements
    • Working with multiple sets of elements
    • Callbacks
    • In a nutshell
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: DOM Manipulation
  • Manipulating attributes
    • Non-class attributes
    • The $() factory function revisited
  • Inserting new elements
  • Moving elements
    • Marking, numbering, and linking the context
    • Appending footnotes
  • Wrapping elements
  • Copying elements
    • Clone with events
    • Cloning for pull quotes
    • A CSS diversion
    • Back to the code
    • Prettifying the pull quotes
  • DOM manipulation methods in a nutshell
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: AJAX
  • Loading data on demand
    • Appending HTML
    • Working with JavaScript objects
      • Retrieving a JavaScript object
      • Global jQuery functions
      • Executing a script
    • Loading an XML document
  • Choosing a data format
  • Passing data to the server
    • Performing a GET request
    • Performing a POST request
    • Serializing a form
  • Keeping an eye on the request
  • AJAX and events
  • Security limitations
    • Using JSONP for remote data
  • Additional options
    • The low-level AJAX method
    • Modifying default options
    • Loading parts of an HTML page
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Table Manipulation
  • Sorting and paging
    • Server-side sorting
      • Preventing page refreshes
    • JavaScript sorting
      • Row grouping tags
      • Basic alphabetical sorting
      • The power of plugins
      • Performance concerns
      • Finessing the sort keys
      • Sorting other types of data
      • Column highlighting
      • Alternating sort directions
    • Server-side pagination
      • Sorting and paging go together
    • JavaScript pagination
      • Displaying the pager
      • Enabling the pager buttons
      • Marking the current page
      • Paging with sorting
    • The finished code
  • Modifying table appearance
    • Row highlighting
      • Row striping
      • Advanced row striping
      • Interactive row highlighting
    • Tooltips
    • Collapsing and expanding sections
    • Filtering
      • Filter options
      • Reversing the filters
      • Interacting with other code
    • The finished code
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Forms with Function
  • Improving a basic form
    • Progressively enhanced form styling
      • The legend
      • Required field messages
    • Conditionally displayed fields
    • Form validation
      • Required fields
      • Required formats
      • A final check
    • Checkbox manipulation
    • The finished code
  • Compact forms
    • Placeholder text for fields
    • AJAX auto-completion
      • On the server
      • In the browser
      • Populating the search field
      • Keyboard navigation
      • Handling the arrow keys
      • Inserting suggestions in the field
      • Removing the suggestion list
      • Auto-completion versus live search
    • The finished code
  • Working with numeric form data
    • Shopping cart table structure
    • Rejecting non-numeric input
    • Numeric calculations
      • Parsing and formatting currency
      • Dealing with decimal places
      • Other calculations
      • Rounding values
      • Finishing touches
    • Deleting items
    • Editing shipping information
    • The finished code
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Shufflers and Rotators
  • Headline rotator
    • Setting up the page
    • Retrieving the feed
    • Setting up the rotator
    • The headline rotate function
    • Pause on hover
    • Retrieving a feed from a different domain
      • Adding a loading indicator
    • Gradient fade effect
    • The finished code
  • An image carousel
    • Setting up the page
      • Revising the styles with JavaScript
    • Shuffling images when clicked
      • Adding sliding animation
      • Displaying action icons
    • Image enlargement
      • Hiding the enlarged cover
      • Displaying a close button
      • More fun with badging
      • Animating the cover enlargement
      • Deferring animations until image loads
      • Adding a loading indicator
    • The finished code
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Using Plugins
  • Finding plugins and help
  • How to use a plugin
  • The Form plugin
    • Tips and tricks
  • The jQuery UI plugin library
    • Effects
      • Color animations
      • Class animations
      • Advanced easing
      • Additional effects
    • Interaction components
    • Widgets
    • jQuery UI ThemeRoller
  • Other recommended plugins
    • Forms
      • Autocomplete
      • Validation
      • Jeditable
      • Masked input
    • Tables
      • Tablesorter
      • jqGrid
      • Flexigrid
    • Images
      • Jcrop
      • Magnify
    • Lightboxes and Modal Dialogs
      • FancyBox
      • Thickbox
      • BlockUI
      • jqModal
    • Charting
      • Flot
      • Sparklines
    • Events
      • hoverIntent
      • Live query
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Developing plugins
  • Adding new global functions
    • Adding multiple functions
    • What's the point?
    • Creating a utility method
  • Adding jQuery Object Methods
    • Object Method context
    • Method chaining
  • DOM traversal methods
  • Adding new shortcut methods
  • Method parameters
    • Simple parameters
    • Parameter maps
    • Default parameter values
    • Callback functions
    • Customizable defaults
  • Adding a selector expression
  • Sharing a plugin with the world
    • Naming conventions
    • Use of the $ alias
    • Method interfaces
    • Documentation style
  • Summary

• Appendix A: Online Resources
  • jQuery documentation
    • jQuery wiki
    • jQuery API
    • jQuery API browser
    • Visual jQuery
    • Adobe AIR jQueryAPI viewer
  • JavaScript reference
    • Mozilla developer center
    • Dev.opera
    • MSDN JScript Reference
    • Quirksmode
    • JavaScript Toolbox
  • JavaScript code compressors
    • YUI Compressor
    • JSMin
    • Pretty printer
  • (X)HTML reference
    • W3C hypertext markup language home page
  • CSS reference
    • W3C cascading style sheets home page
    • Mezzoblue CSS cribsheet
    • Position is everything
  • Useful blogs
    • The jQuery blog
    • Learning jQuery
    • Ajaxian
    • John Resig
    • JavaScript ant
    • Robert's talk
    • Web standards with imagination
    • Snook
    • Matt Snider JavaScript resource
    • I can't
    • DOM scripting
    • As days pass by
    • A list apart
  • Web development frameworks using jQuery

• Appendix B: Development Tools
  • Tools for Firefox
    • Firebug
    • Web developer toolbar
    • Venkman
    • Regular expressions tester
  • Tools for Internet Explorer
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
    • Microsoft Visual Web Developer
    • DebugBar
    • Drip
  • Tools for Safari
    • Develop Menu
    • Web Inspector
  • Tools for Opera
    • Dragonfly
  • Other tools
    • Firebug Lite
    • NitobiBug
    • TextMate jQuery bundle
    • Charles
    • Fiddler
    • Aptana

• Appendix C: JavaScript Closures
  • Inner functions
    • The great escape
    • Variable scoping
  • Interactions between closures
  • Closures in jQuery
    • Arguments to $(document).ready()
    • Event handlers
  • Memory leak hazards
    • Accidental reference loops
    • The Internet Explorer memory leak problem
    • The good news
  • Summary

• Appendix D: Quick Reference
  • Selector expressions
  • DOM traversal methods
  • Event methods
  • Effect methods
  • DOM manipulation methods
  • AJAX methods
  • Miscellaneous methods

• Index