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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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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

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Colorbox is flexible enough to be used to display a video player as content. We'll link out to a YouTube video, then add some Colorbox magic to display the video in a Colorbox.

In this section, we'll dive into using AJAX for the first time. In case you aren't familiar, AJAX is a method that is used to fetch some new content from the server and displays it to the site visitor without having to completely refresh the page. As the browser only gets and displays just the bit of information the site visitor needs, it's often much faster and snappier than loading a whole new page.

Just a quick note before we dive into AJAX for the first time. Modern browsers have several security rules for AJAX requests. You won't be able to simply view your ajaxified HTML files in a browser as we've been doing up until this point. In order to view AJAX in action, you'll either have to upload your files to a server before viewing them, or you'll have to set up a server on your own computer. For an easy...

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