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Beginning jQuery

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  • © 2013

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  1. Jack Franklin
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. JavaScript You Need to Know

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Basics of jQuery

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 15-28

  4. Traversing the DOM

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 29-42

  5. DOM Manipulation with jQuery

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 43-57

  6. An Introduction to Events

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 59-70

  7. More Events

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 71-82

  8. Animation

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 83-102

  9. Ajax with jQuery

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 103-119

  10. Writing a jQuery Plug-in

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 121-138

  11. More jQuery Plug-ins

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 139-155

  12. A jQuery Image Slider

    • Jack Franklin
    Pages 157-178

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 179-181
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About this book

Beginning jQuery is your step-by-step guide to learning the jQuery library. jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in the web developer’s toolkit. Jack Franklin takes you from the basics of getting you started with jQuery, right through to extending jQuery by writing your own plug-ins. You'll discover best practices you can follow, how you can avoid common mistakes, and you'll learn about so many of the things that jQuery has to offer, including how you can:
  • Use jQuery’s powerful tools to dynamically update content on your site, including DOM manipulation.
  • Extend jQuery’s capabilities by writing your own plugins on top of the framework.
  • Animate elements and build your own jQuery slider.
  • Employ best practices and avoid common errors made by beginners.

JavaScript is a powerful language but every web developer must navigate the tricky issues around cross-browser inconsistencies. Beginning jQuery teaches you how to use jQuery to avoid spending your time fixing these browser bugs - letting you concentrate on what really matters to you. Throughout Beginning jQuery, you'll discover how expressive yet concise jQuery’s code is and how much quicker and efficient you can develop with jQuery!

About the author

Jack Franklin is a web developer and Computer Science student from the world heritage city of Bath, in the UK. He first started creating websites back in 2005 and has experience in a number of web languages including HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby, Python and others, although his main focus is JavaScript. He runs the popular online resource javascriptplayground.com and has released a number of open source jQuery plug-ins online.

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