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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

Time for action – creating simple tabs


Perform the following steps to turn a list of links into tabs:

  1. We'll get started with our basic HTML file and associated folders, like we created in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. Inside the <body> tag, we'll start by setting up a simple example that will work even for users with JavaScript disabled. We'll put a list of anchor links to different areas of the page at the top and then wrap each of our content sections in a div block with an ID, as shown in the following code:

    <header class="content">
      <h1>Noble Gases</h1>
      <p>Odorless, colorless, monatomic gases with very low chemical reactivity</p>
    </header>
    
    <ul id="tabs">
      <li><a href="#he">He</a></li>
      <li><a href="#ne">Ne</a></li>
      <li><a href="#ar">Ar</a></li>
      <li><a href="#kr">Kr</a></li>
      <li><a href="#xe">Xe</a></li>
    ...
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