jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook

jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook brings together 100+ instantly useful code snippets and idioms for performing a wide spectrum of common web application tasks. This hands-on guide gets straight to the essence of what's useful in jQuery and JavaScript, and what you need to know to build new web solutions or migrate existing sites to jQuery.

jQuery & JavaScript Phrasebook presents carefully tested, flexible, adaptable code - all organized for quick lookup and easy use. Coverage ranges from the basics to advanced jQuery capabilities, including jQueryUI widgets and mobile development. Coverage includes:

• Basics, including selecting and manipulating HTML elements with jQuery Selector
• Dynamically manipulating CSS values
• Handling browser and DOM events
• Performing validation
• Server communication
• REST, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, and JSON/XML data
• Positioning web page elements and making them interactive
• Using animation and other special effects

Autorentext

Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer with 20 years of experience developing enterprise applications. He has used HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery extensively to develop a wide array of web pages ranging from enterprise application interfaces to sophisticated rich Internet applications to smart interfaces for mobile web services. He is the author of Python Developer's Phrasebook and Sams Teach Yourself jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours.

Inhalt

1 Jumping into jQuery, JavaScript, and the World of Dynamic Web Development

2 Using the JavaScript Language

3 Interacting with the Browser

4 Accessing HTML Elements

5 Manipulating the jQuery Object Set

6 Capturing and Using Browser and User Events

7 Manipulating Web Page Elements Dynamically

8 Manipulating Web Page Layout Dynamically

9 Dynamically Working With Form Elements

10 Building Web Page Content Dynamically

11 Adding jQuery UI Elements

12 Animation and other Special Effects

13 Using AJAX to Communicate with Web Servers and Web Services

14 Implementing Mobile Web Sites with jQuery