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.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.
With the jQuery UI library, you can apply the power and standards of jQuery to user interface design, complete with interactive elements, animation, and themeable widgets. This concise, code-heavy guide demonstrates how to harness interactive features that HTML5 lacks, including tabs, accordions, and dialog boxes. You'll also learn how to program common but complex tasks, such as managing drag and drop and autocomplete, that make it easier for users to interact with your site. This book provides a quick tour of how jQuery UI can improve your HTML pages, followed by standalone chapters that focus on each of the components in detail. If you're a web developer or designer looking to enrich your website with new features--without having to dive into full-fledged Javascript--jQuery UI is a must. This book covers the following extensions in version 1.8: Tab management Accordion menus Dialog boxes Buttons Progress bars Sliders Date pickers Autocompleters Drag and drop management Selection, resizing, and switching of elements New visual effects
" ... Clearly explains the basics, and walks readers step-by-step through applying jQuery in many everyday web development tasks. Through practical examples, he covers all this, and much more: * Adding CSS effects and creating animations * Designing multimedia slideshows and lightboxes * Understanding and using jQuery plugins * Creating sortable lists, drag and droppable elements, and resizable images * Building interactive forms with Ajax * Using and creating jQuery plugins * Building mobile front-ends with jQuery Mobile Practical, hands-on, and easy to understand, Learning jQuery will help readers quickly use what they've learned. Steyer integrates coverage of the latest jQuery features and add-ons into every chapter, helping developers get even more out of jQuery by leveraging the community's most innovative new resources."--Publisher's description.
Filled with a practical collection of recipes, jQuery UI Cookbook is full of clear, step-by-step instructions that will help you harness the powerful UI framework in jQuery. Depending on your needs, you can dip in and out of the Cookbook and its recipes, or follow the book from start to finish.If you are a jQuery UI developer looking to improve your existing applications, extract ideas for your new application, or to better understand the overall widget architecture, then jQuery UI Cookbook is a must-have for you. The reader should at least have a rudimentary understanding of what jQuery UI is, and have written some code that uses jQuery UI.
100+ Practical jQuery Recipes for Solving Your Real-World Web and Mobile Development Challenges! jQuery makes it easier than ever for developers to build exceptionally robust, cross-platform websites and mobile apps. jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile: Recipes and Examples is a practical “cookbook,” packed with realistic, easy-to-use solutions for making the most of jQuery Core, jQuery UI, plugins, and jQuery Mobile. This guide brings together more than one hundred self-contained, downloadable examples, each with an in-depth explanation of how the code works and how to adapt it for your own needs. Pioneering web/mobile developers Adriaan de Jonge and Phil Dutson present examples you can apply immediately in virtually any web or mobile app, and with any server-side platform, including PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby, Node.js, or Python. This extremely useful guide will help you Test browser support and provide for graceful degradation Fine-tune DOM element selection and manipulate your site’s DOM structure Master the newest techniques for event handling and binding Communicate with web servers: AJAX, page errors, redirects, XML, and more Use advanced UI widgets, from accordions and autocomplete to sliders and tabs Build mobile-optimized sites with the jQuery Mobile library Write and smoothly incorporate new plugins Integrate powerful third-party plugins, such as the Twitter Bootstrap framework The authors’ proven “code first, explain later” approach supports developers at all levels who want to start experimenting immediately. Their exceptionally readable examples never take shortcuts or compromise quality,and their detailed walk-throughs are ideal for anyone who wants to thoroughly understand their code. If you have a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript, you’ll feel right at home immediately; if not, de Jonge and Dutson’s careful explanations and full HTML page layout examples will get you up to speed quickly. Covers jQuery 1.6.4 and 1.7, with Tips for 1.8
Get started fast with jQuery web programming The jQuery JavaScript library greatly simplifies the creation of modern, rich web applications, while seamlessly integrating with virtually all leading web development platforms and frameworks. Learning jQuery will guide you through using jQuery, jQuery UI, and jQuery Mobile in your own projects. One step at a time, you’ll learn how to do everything from adding simple effects through building complete rich Internet applications. This code-rich tutorial is designed for every working web developer. After clearly explaining all the basics, Ralph Steyer shows how to apply jQuery to create effects, animations, slideshows, lists, drag-and-droppable elements, interactive forms, and much more. If you’re a web developer with even basic JavaScript experience, Learning jQuery is your fastest route to success with jQuery • Discover what jQuery can do, and how it works with JavaScript and DOM • Select components to support dynamic processes • Manipulate web page content and structure • Apply and change formatting with CSS style sheets through jQuery • Handle complex events more effectively and reliably • Generate time-dependent and time-independent CSS effects • Expand jQuery’s capabilities with plug-ins • Use jQuery to create simpler, better, more powerful AJAX code • Master powerful, flexible jQuery UI plug-ins for visual control and user interaction • Simplify the creation of jQuery UI interfaces with ThemeRoller • Master basic rules for successfully working with components and widgets • Construct touch-enabled mobile front ends with jQuery Mobile
jQuery was written to express, in short-order, the concepts essential to intermediate and advanced jQuery development. Its purpose is to instill in you, the reader, practices that jQuery developers take as common knowledge. Each chapter contains concepts essential to becoming a seasoned jQuery developer.This book is intended for two types of readers. The first is someone who has read introductory material on jQuery and is looking for the next logical step. The second type of reader is a JavaScript developer, already versed in another library, now trying to quickly learn jQuery. I crafted this book to be used as my own personal reference point for jQuery concepts. This is exactly the type of book I wish every JavaScript library had available. This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject's core elements. A flowing writing style combines with the use of illustrations and diagrams throughout the text to ensure the reader understands even the most complex of concepts. This succinct and enlightening overview is a required reading for all those interested in the subject . We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career & Business.
"In this jQuery UI training course, expert author Dan Wellman will teach you how to navigate the jQuery user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes that are built on top of the jQuery JavaScript library. This course is designed for the intermediate user that already has a working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to design websites. You will start by learning about the jQuery UI core and utilities, such as the core methods and selectors and the position utility. You will then learn about the various widgets available in the UI, including the accordion, progressbar, tabs, button, slider, tooltip, spinner, dialog, autocomplete, and datepicker widget. Once you have mastered the widgets, Dan teaches you about the themable CSS framework in jQuery UI. This video tutorial will also teach you about the interactions in jQuery UI, including selectable, resizable, draggable, droppable, and sortable. Finally, you will learn about the UI effects, such as color animations, class transitions, and how to show and hide effects. By the completion of this computer based training course, you will be fully capable of building complete interactive web applications using the jQuery UI toolset. Working files are included, allowing you to follow along with the author throughout the lessons."--Resource description page.
An indispensable companion for jQuery, jQuery UI is a free, open-source library of widgets, effects, and behaviors that will make your web apps more polished and engaging. In this course, Joe Marini provides a comprehensive introduction to jQuery UI, showing how to use its feature set to enhance an existing site or mobile app. Learn how to use basic and advanced widgets like the Slider, Dialog, and Datepicker controls; add drag- and-drop functionality and animation; and even build your own custom visual themes with jQuery UI's ThemeRoller tool.
