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 PROFESSIONAL JQUERY™

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

 PART I JQUERY FUNDAMENTALS

CHAPTER 1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 2 JavaScript Primer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
CHAPTER 3 The jQuery Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
CHAPTER 4 DOM Element Selection and Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
CHAPTER 5 Event Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
CHAPTER 6 HTML Forms, Data, and Ajax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
CHAPTER 7 Animations and Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

 PART II APPLIED JQUERY

CHAPTER 8 jQuery UI Part I—Making Things Look Slick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
CHAPTER 9 jQuery UI Part II—Mouse Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
CHAPTER 10 Writing Effective jQuery Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
CHAPTER 11 jQuery Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
CHAPTER 12 Writing jQuery Plugins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
CHAPTER 13 Advanced Asynchronous Programming with jQuery Deferred . . . . . . 263
CHAPTER 14 Unit Testing with QUnit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
APPENDIX Plugins Used In this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

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 To Kala.
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 ABOUT THE AUTHORS

CESAR OTERO is a freelance web developer currently living in Mountain View,

California. His technical interests include Python, Django, JavaScript, and
jQuery. Cesar occasionally contributes articles to IBM’s developer works.
He holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Inter American University of
Puerto Rico.

ROB LARSEN has more than 12 years’ experience as a front-end engineer and team
leader, building websites and applications for some of the world’s biggest brands.
He is currently a Senior Specialist, Platform at Sapient Global Markets.
Prior to his time at Sapient, Rob spent time at Isobar, The Brand Experience,
Cramer, and as an independent consultant. Over the course of his career, Rob has
solved unique problems for clients like Adidas, Motorola, Philips, Reebok, Gillette,
Boston’s Museum of Science, State Street Corporation, and Harvard Kennedy School.
Rob is an active writer and speaker on web technology with a special focus on emerging standards
like HTML5, CSS3, and the ongoing evolution of the JavaScript programming language. He’s also
active in the open-source community, helping to bridge the gap between the front lines of web
development and the people actively working on the tools that drive the web.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR

ANDREW MONTALENTI is a technologist with over a decade of experience in software

engineering, and over eight years of experience in web application development. He is
cofounder and CTO at Parse.ly, a tech startup that provides insights to the web’s best
publishers. He is also the founder and CEO of Aleph Point, a boutique consulting
fi rm that specializes in large-scale text analysis, information retrieval, and UI design,
with a focus on Python, Grails, and JavaScript web programming. He specializes in
the rapid development of prototypes. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he was a
technical lead and project manager for a small, super-bright team within a top-tier investment bank.

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MANY THANKS to Andrew Montalenti for taking on the technical editing, and, of course, the
editors at Wiley, Carol Long and Edward Connor. A special thanks to Lynn Haller: without her,
this project wouldn’t have come together. Also, PJ Cabrera for both helping me kickstart my writing
career and introducing me to jQuery.
Thanks to the Hacker Dojo for providing such an amazing coworking space, and to the dojo
members who contributed input.
I’m also grateful to my friends and family for their support and input, most notably Paul Wayland,
Alejandro Valsega, and Valerie Voigt.

—Cesar Otero

I’D LIKE TO THANK the folks at Wiley for giving me this opportunity and especially Carol Long and
Edward Connor for helping me hit the ground running. I’d be crazy not to mention our copy editor,
Kim Cofer, and Andrew Montalenti, our technical editor. Without them, we’d be working without
a spotter. Knowing they’re there to catch us when we stumble makes this a lot easier. I’d also like to
thank Renée Midrack and Lynn Haller from Studio B for steering me towards the opportunity in
the fi rst place.
I defi nitely want to thank the jQuery team and community for being generally phenomenal. Here’s a
big high five to all the great front-end engineers I’ve worked with at Cramer, Isobar, and Sapient —
thanks for pushing me to be a better programmer, manager, and colleague. From Sapient, I need to
specifically thank Jarlath Forde, Joe Morgan, and Alvin Crespo for direct support on the book.

—Rob Larsen

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 CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION xv

PART I: JQUERY FUNDAMENTALS

CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED 3

What jQuery Is Good At 3

Hardware and Browser Requirements 4
Obtaining jQuery and jQuery UI 4
“Hello World” Example 5
JavaScript Conventions Used in This Book 6
Development Tools 9
Debugging JavaScript and jQuery 15
Using the FireQuery Plugin 16
Summary 17
CHAPTER 2: JAVASCRIPT PRIMER 19

Understanding Numbers 20
Working with Strings 21
Understanding Booleans 21
Comparison Types 22
A Brief Note About Dates 23
Reviewing Miscellaneous Types 23
Revisiting Variables 24
Understanding Objects 25
Using Functions 29
Understanding Execution Context 32
Working with Scope and Closures 32
Understanding Access Levels 34
Applying Modules 34
Using JavaScript Arrays 35
Augmenting Types 37
Applying JS Best Practices 38
Putting It All Together 38
Summary 39
Note 39

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CHAPTER 3: THE JQUERY CORE 41

Understanding the Structure of a jQuery Script 41

Utility Functions 43
Using JavaScript Unobtrusively 52
The jQuery Framework Structure 58
Understanding the DOM and Events 60
Using jQuery with Other JavaScript Libraries 60
Summary 61
Notes 62
CHAPTER 4: DOM ELEMENT SELECTION AND MANIPULATION 63

The Power of jQuery Selectors 64

Selecting Elements 64
Selecting by CSS Styles 66
Selecting by Attributes 68
Selecting by Position 72
Using Filter Selectors 72
Custom User Selectors 81
Doing DOM Traversal 82
Accessing and Modifying Elements,
Attributes, and Content 88
Working with Content 88
Generating HTML 92
Summary 93
CHAPTER 5: EVENT HANDLING 95

Understanding the Browser Event Model 96

Event Capturing and Bubbling 99
Understanding How jQuery Handles Events 101
Applying jQuery Event Handlers 103
Working with Events 108
jQuery’s New Event API 114
Summary 116
Notes 117
CHAPTER 6: HTML FORMS, DATA, AND AJAX 119

jQuery Data Appreciation 119

Using Form Validations 121
Feature Detection with Modernizr 122

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Working with HTML Form Elements 124

Revisiting Ajax Basics 127
Applying Ajax with jQuery 129
Summary 138
Notes 138
CHAPTER 7: ANIMATIONS AND EFFECTS 141

Animating Elements 141

Animating CSS Properties 143
Resizing Elements 146
Designing Custom Animations 146
Animations with HTML5 Canvas 150
Summary 152
Notes 152

PART II: APPLIED JQUERY

CHAPTER 8: JQUERY UI PART I—MAKING THINGS
LOOK SLICK 155

Theming and Styling 155

Using ThemeRoller 156
Using jQuery UI Widgets 157
Button 158
Tabs 159
Accordion 163
Autocomplete 164
Datepicker 167
Dialog 173
Progressbar 175
Slider 176
Summary 178
Notes 178
CHAPTER 9: JQUERY UI PART II—MOUSE INTERACTIONS 179

Dragging and Dropping 179

Sorting 184
Resizing Elements 188
Making Elements Selectable 192
Summary 194

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CHAPTER 10: WRITING EFFECTIVE JQUERY CODE 195

Optimization Techniques 195

Minimize DOM Updates 196
More Effective Looping 198
Caching Objects 200
Use Efficient Selectors 200
Consider Skipping jQuery Methods Entirely 204
DRY 205
Use JavaScript Patterns 206
Creating an Application Namespace with a Singleton 207
The Module Pattern 210
The Garber-Irish Implementation 213
Using $.data() 216
The Basics of the .data() API 216
Fully Leveraging the Data API 217
Summary 219

CHAPTER 11: JQUERY TEMPLATES 221

Taming a Tangle of Strings 221

Separation of Content and Behavior 223
Code Reuse 223
Aesthetics and Clarity 223
The Past, Present, and Future of jQuery Templates 223
Creating Templates 224
Applying Templates with $.tmpl() 226
Applying Templates Using Remote Data 228
Template Tags 230
Summary 240

CHAPTER 12: WRITING JQUERY PLUGINS 241

The Plugin Basics 241

Applying jQuery Plugin Naming Conventions 242
How to Extend jQuery 242
General Plugin Guidelines 244
Applying Plugin Best Practices 249
Utilize and Learn from Existing Plugin Patterns 256
A Closer Look at the Widget Factory 258
An Example Plugin Implementation 259
Summary 262

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CHAPTER 13: ADVANCED ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING WITH

JQUERY DEFERRED 263

Building Blocks 263

Promises 264
The Promises/A Proposal 264
The jQuery Deferred Object 265
Summary 279
CHAPTER 14: UNIT TESTING WITH QUNIT 281

An Introduction to Unit Testing 281

What Is Unit Testing? 282
Benefits of Unit Testing 282
Test-Driven Development 283
Understanding What Makes a Good Unit Test 283
Getting Started with QUnit 284
The QUnit Hello World Using equal 284
A Failing QUnit Test 286
Testing for Truthiness with ok 287
Setting Expectations 287
Additional Assertions 288
Testing DOM Elements 289
Using noglobals and notrycatch 290
Organizing Tests into Modules 292
Asynchronous Testing 294
Using asyncTest 295
Mocking Ajax Requests 296
Putting it All Together in a Test Suite 298
Summary 301
APPENDIX: PLUGINS USED IN THIS BOOK 303

INDEX 305

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 INTRODUCTION

OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS JAVASCRIPT has undergone a remarkable transformation. Where
once it was a “toy” language relegated to secondary status it’s now one of the most important
programming languages in the world. With the ongoing importance of Ajax-based development and
the rise of full-featured JavaScript libraries, the stigma surrounding JavaScript has all but vanished.
As easily the most popular and beginner-friendly library, jQuery is responsible for the lion’s share of
that progress.
jQuery is more than just a beginner’s choice; however, it’s in use at some of the largest organizations
in the world, adding interactivity to billions of page views every month. Amazon, IBM, Twitter,
NBC, Best Buy and Dell are just a few of the companies using jQuery in production.
With a web-scale footprint it should come as no surprise that jQuery is evolving at web speed. 2011
saw no less than three major releases and the community surrounding jQuery continues to blossom
as developers the world over contribute bug fi xes, plugins and work on related projects like jQuery
UI and QUnit. This flurry of activity ensures that jQuery presents a full-featured option for any
developer looking to do world-class JavaScript development.
This is true no matter what programming philosophy or technique is followed: jQuery is
prominently featured in the front end of Java/Spring, PHP, .NET, Ruby on Rails, and Python/
Django stacks all over the Web.
If you have experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, then this book is for you. This book
will expand your jQuery knowledge by focusing on the core library with the benefit of strong
core JavaScript expertise coloring the lessons. The fi rst few chapters will help you to set up a
development environment, and reviews important JavaScript concepts. Chapters 3 to 7 examine the
jQuery core concepts. The second half of the book focuses on applying jQuery in the real world,
detailing jQuery UI, plugin development, templates, unit testing, best practices, and JavaScript
design patterns applied with jQuery.
Hopefully, this book will give you the hardcore jQuery chops you’ll need to solve whatever
problems the Web throws at you.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book is aimed at three groups of readers:
➤ Experienced server-side web application developers looking to move more heavily into the
client side using the world’s most popular front-end library
➤ Experienced JavaScript programmers looking to ramp up quickly on jQuery
➤ Novice to intermediate jQuery developers looking to expand their jQuery knowledge into
more advanced topics

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This book is not aimed at beginners. For beginners looking to start from the basics of HMTL, CSS,
and JavaScript/jQuery development, Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery
(Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Richard York is a more appropriate choice.

WHAT THIS BOOK COVERS

Professional jQuery provides a developer-level introduction to jQuery as well as providing an in-
depth look at more advanced features.
Starting with the fi rst part, the book offers an in-depth introduction to jQuery fundamentals,
selecting elements, manipulating to the DOM, and binding and reacting to browser events.
Building on that solid foundation the book will outline more advanced topics, including plugin
development, unit testing with JavaScript and other advanced features of the library.
The book focuses on features available as of jQuery 1.7.1, but tries to make note of feature support
in older versions of the library wherever relevant.

HOW THIS BOOK IS STRUCTURED

This book is divided into two parts, jQuery Fundamentals and Applied jQuery. jQuery Fundamentals
introduces the core concepts and Applied jQuery focuses on more advanced subjects.
Part I — jQuery Fundamentals consists of the following chapters:
1. Getting Started — This chapter sets up an environment for developing and debugging
jQuery and JavaScript code and defi nes the code standards that will be used throughout the
book. It also talks about ways to package JavaScript for production and sets up code.
2. JavaScript Primer — This chapter goes through the basics of the JavaScript programming
language to fi rm up the foundation upon which the rest of the book is built. jQuery is a
JavaScript library after all, and many of the best features spring from clever application of
core JavaScript techniques.
3. The jQuery Core — Introduces the basic functions that make up the library. It illuminates
usages of the core jQuery functions and then introduces many of the utility functions that
you’ll use to perform a variety of tasks.
4. DOM Element Selection and Manipulation — This chapter dives into one of the core
features of jQuery, the ability to select and manipulate HTML elements.
5. Event Handling — Introduces another key feature of jQuery, the cross-browser ability to
bind and manage browser events.
6. HTML Forms, Data, and Ajax — Explores one of the biggest revolutions in web development
of the past 10 years — Ajax.
7. Animations and Effects — Explores some of the shortcuts that jQuery offers for animating
components in your web applications such as moving, fading, toggling, and resizing
elements.

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Part II — Applied jQuery covers the following topics:

8. jQuery UI Part I: Making Things Look Slick — Introduces jQuery UI. jQuery UI is an
associated user interface library for jQuery that contains widgets, effects, animations, and
interactions.
9. jQuery UI Part II: Mouse Interactions — Explores additional jQuery UI features including
moving, sorting, resizing, and selecting elements with the mouse.
10. Writing Effective jQuery Code — Teaches a variety of techniques, best practices,
and patterns that you can apply to your code immediately to make it more efficient,
maintainable, and clear.
11. jQuery Templates — Focuses on the jQuery Template plugin. jQuery templates are a
standard way of marrying data and markup snippets.
12. Writing jQuery Plugins — Focuses on authoring jQuery plugins. Being able to extend the
power of jQuery with custom methods is a fundamental skill for a top jQuery developer.
13. Advanced Asynchronous Programming with jQuery Deferred — Introduces the jQuery
Deferred object. $.Deferred, introduced in version 1.5, is a chainable utility object that
provides fi ne-tuned control over the way callback functions are handled.
14. Unit Testing with QUnit — Introduces the general concept of unit testing and goes into
detail with the specific unit testing framework created and used by the jQuery project itself,
QUnit.

WHAT YOU NEED TO USE THIS BOOK

jQuery supports the following web browsers. You’ll need one of them to run the samples provided
with the book:
➤ Firefox 3.6, Current – 1 version
➤ Internet Explorer 6+
➤ Safari 5.0.x
➤ Opera Current – 1 version
➤ Chrome Current – 1 version

CONVENTIONS
To help you get the most from the text and keep track of what’s happening, we’ve used a number of
conventions throughout the book.

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or to show changes from a previous code snippet.

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