Practical jQuery

At a Glance; Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Evolution of jQuery; Traditional JavaScript Basics; The Window Object; Methods; Attributes; Child Objects; The Document Object; The History Object; The Location Object; The Navigator Object; The Screen Object; Old School Challenges; Challenges Pertaining to the Window Object; Challenges Pertaining to the Document Object; Challenges Related to the Globals; Need for a Revolution; Who Was the Revolutionary?; Why jQuery?; Minimal and Easy Coding.;Practical jQuery is your step-by-step guide to using jQuery in the real world, taking you from downloading jQuery all the way to extending it by writing your own plug-ins and testing the DOM using QUnit. jQuery is one of today's most popular JavaScript web application development frameworks and libraries. While getting started with the tool is easy, sometimes it's not as simple to completely realize the power and automation that it can bring to your development work--and that's especially the case when you're in the middle of a project, up against a deadline. Using this book, you will learn how to use jQuery's powerful DOM manipulation tools to dynamically update content on your site. You will be able to extend jQuery's capabilities by writing your own plugins on top of the framework, animate elements, build your own jQuery elements, employ best practices, and avoid common errors. Practical jQuery teaches you how, with jQuery, you can unit test and refactor your code. You'll see how expressive yet concise jQuery's code is and how much quicker and efficient it is to develop with jQuery. Get a fundamental perspective on how jQuery works, how to understand, select, and build your own plug-ins, and how to make sure your projects run at the peak of their potential performance using Practical jQuery today. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Evolution of jQuery....Pages 1-18 Getting Started with jQuery....Pages 19-38 Traversing DOM with jQuery....Pages 39-73 DOM Manipulation with jQuery....Pages 75-98 Events in jQuery....Pages 99-127 Real World Events in jQuery....Pages 129-149 Animation in jQuery....Pages 151-193 Ajax with jQuery....Pages 195-210 Creating Plug-ins with jQuery....Pages 211-227 Integrating Plug-ins with jQuery....Pages 229-243 Using jQuery Frameworks....Pages 245-263 Testing jQuery with QUnit....Pages 265-288 Back Matter....Pages 289-294