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jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition Design interactive websites to improve user experience by using the popular JavaScript library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783284535
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Natalie Maclees Natalie Maclees
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designer, Meet jQuery FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancing Links 3. Making a Better FAQ Page 4. Building an Interactive Navigation Menu 5. Showing Content in Lightboxes 6. Creating Slideshows and Sliders 7. Working with Responsive Designs 8. Getting the Most from Images 9. Improving Typography 10. Displaying Data Beautifully 11. Reacting to Scrolling 12. Improving Forms A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Improving the appearance

If you've tried styling web forms with CSS, then you've probably discovered that some form elements, such as text inputs and buttons, are pretty easy to style. There are a few quirks, but once you get those figured out, you can get those form elements to look just about any way you'd like. Other form elements, however, are much more stubborn and don't respond much, if at all, to CSS styles. It's so frustrating to design a lovely form only to realize that it's technically impossible.

These troublesome form elements are as follows:

  • <select>
  • <input type="file">
  • <input type="checkbox">
  • <input type="radio">

Not only are these four form elements impossible to style with CSS, but they also look radically different in different browsers and operating systems, leaving us with little control over the appearance of our form. Let's see how Lutrasoft's Fancyform plugin can help us out.

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