![]() To develop JavaScript applications, you need: And you can add it to your skill set any time after you’ve finished Section 2. In fact, for jQuery users, there’s no better way to develop mobile websites right now. This section shows you how to use another JavaScript library, jQuery Mobile, to develop web pages for mobile devices with the look-and-feel of native applications. Section 5: Mobile websites made easier with jQuery Mobile This is a major use of Ajax and JSON…yet no other jQuery book shows you how to do it. Then, you’ll learn how to work with the APIs for websites like Blogger, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, and Google Maps to add popular content to your pages. So in this section, you’ll learn how to use jQuery with Ajax and JSON to deliver data to your websites. Fortunately, jQuery provides methods that make it far more manageable. But to be honest, the coding can be mind-bending. Together, they can be used to get data from a server and add it to a web page without reloading the entire page, which can significantly improve response times for users (if you’ve ever scrolled around a Google Map, you’ve seen this in action). Section 4: Speed up response times and add content feeds with Ajax and JSONĪjax and JSON are hot topics today. So this section shows you how to use jQuery UI to create widgets like tabs, accordions, and datepickers.interactions like draggable, droppable, and sortable.and effects like color and class transitions. This library helps you build features that your site visitors may appreciate, all with just a few lines of code. Section 3: Enhance your web pages by using jQuery UIīesides the core jQuery library, jQuery provides the jQuery UI (User Interface) library. When you complete this section, you can go on to any of the 3 sections that follow. Then, the next four chapters build on that base as they focus on effects and animations, DOM manipulation and traversal, forms and data validation, the many plugins that are available for jQuery, and how to create your own plugins. To begin, chapter 7 presents the jQuery selectors, methods, and event methods that you’ll use most often. In this section, you’ll learn how to use jQuery to create JavaScript applications like image swaps, collapsible panels, slide shows, carousels, user-friendly forms…and more…with far less coding than you’d have to do in native JavaScript. ![]() (And our paired-pages format makes it easy to skim.) Section 2: The core jQuery skills for every web developer But even if you already know JavaScript, you’ll probably pick up a few new skills as you skim through the chapters. This section is especially designed for programming novices. Although you can’t use jQuery without these JavaScript skills, most jQuery books don’t include them. To get you off to the right start, section 1 presents a crash course in the JavaScript skills that you need for using jQuery. Section 1: The least you need to know about JavaScript to get the most from jQuery
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