jQuery For Dummies

  • 2h 54m
  • Lynn Beighley
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2010

You don't need to be a Web programmer to jazz up your Web site with jQuery!

Want to keep your Web site cutting-edge but don't want to invest a lot of time? No worries! This book will help you add simple but compelling jQuery effects and cool prebuilt plug-ins to your site — no geekiness required. You can quickly use widgets and AJAX plug-ins, and gain the essential jQuery know-how to achieve great effects fast.

  • Starting point — find out what jQuery can do, use HTML elements, connect the jQuery library to a Web page, and understand the basics
  • Make things happen — learn to make page elements appear and disappear, slide, fade, and move
  • Plug it in — explore the array of available plug-ins, download and test them, and add widgets to your site
  • Meet Ajax — see how Ajax works with jQuery and how you can give your Web site visitors a richer experience
  • Manage your content — discover how to use jQuery with Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress content management systems

Open the book and find:

  • How to acquire and test jQuery
  • Tips on understanding parent-child elements
  • Different types of event handlers
  • Cool things to do with page elements
  • Effects you can achieve with animation
  • Ways to make forms easier and more appealing to use
  • How to add a calendar to a page
  • Ten terrific plug-ins you'll want

Learn to:

  • Build site special effects such as fades, sliding panels, and tabbed navigation
  • Create a photo gallery for your blog or Web site
  • Customize Twitter and RSS feeds
  • Add jQuery plug-ins for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, and more

About the Author

Lynn Beighley is a Web designer, a Web developer, and the author of several books and training courses. She creates Web applications of every imaginable type using Drupal, jQuery, and other technologies.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Getting up and Running with jQuery
  • Accessing HTML Elements
  • Selecting HTML Elements, Attributes, and Positions
  • Managing Events
  • Playing Hide-and-Seek with Web Page Elements
  • Sliding and Fading Web Page Elements
  • Animating Web Page Elements
  • Making Web Page Content Dynamic
  • Replacing, Removing, and Copying Web Page Elements
  • Understanding Plug-ins
  • Playing with Image Effects
  • Jazzing up Forms
  • Toying with Page Layout
  • Incorporating a User Interface
  • Understanding How AJAX Works with jQuery
  • Using AJAX Plug-ins
  • Cool Image Effects with jQuery and Drupal
  • Integrating jQuery and Joomla!
  • Building Better Blogs with jQuery and WordPress
  • Ten Don't-Miss Plug-ins
  • Ten Design and Code Tricks
  • Ten jQuery Resources
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