jQuery Succinctly

Morrisville, Syncfusion Inc, 2012, — 101 p. jQuery Succinctly 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 three 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. The third reader is I, the author. 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. Contents: The Story behind the Succinctly Series of Books About the Author Introduction Preface jQuery semantics How the book is structured More code, less words Why oh why did I use alert() for code examples? Color coding Completely grok jQuery text() before reading this book Code examples Chapter 1 Core jQuery Base concept behind jQuery The concept, behind the concept, behind jQuery jQuery requires HTML to run in standards mode or almost-standards mode Waiting on the DOM to be ready Executing jQuery code when the browser window is completely loaded Include all CSS files before including jQuery Using a hosted version of jQuery Executing jQuery code when DOM is parsed without using ready() Grokking jQuery chaining Breaking the chain with destructive methods Using destructive jQuery methods and exiting destruction using end() Aspects of the jQuery function Grokking when the keyword this refers to DOM elements Extracting elements from a wrapper set, using them directly without jQuery Checking to see if the wrapper set is empty Creating an alias by renaming the jQuery object itself Using .each() when implicit iteration is not enough Elements in jQuery wrapper set returned in document order Determining context used by the jQuery function Creating entire DOM structure, including DOM events, in a single chain