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Chapter 2. Enhancing Links

We take links for granted these days, but the truth of the matter is that the humble link revolutionized documents and made the Web as we know it today possible. Being able to link a reader directly to another document or to another place within a document was not possible before.

For this reason, you can say that hyperlinks are the backbone of the Internet—without them, search engines wouldn't be possible, nor would most websites. Let's take a look at some of the ways we can make links work even harder for us.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • How to turn a list of links into simple tabs
  • How to customize tooltips

Simple tabs

If we have a large amount of information to present that might not be relevant to all site visitors, we can compress the amount of space the information takes by hiding selected bits of information until the user requests it. One of the most common ways of making all the information available but hidden until requested is tabs. Tabs echo the real-world example of a tabbed notebook or labeled folders in a filing cabinet, and are easy for site visitors to understand. Believe it or not, they're also easy to implement with jQuery.

The following screenshot gives us an idea of what our page will look like after we've created our tabs:

Simple tabs

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"&gt...

Designer, meet plugins

We've already talked about how programmers solve the same problems over and over again. It's these common tasks that jQuery simplifies so that we can accomplish these tasks with a minimum amount of code. What about the tasks that are only somewhat common, like the ability to customize the appearance of tooltips?

That's where the jQuery community becomes important. Developers in the jQuery community write code that extends the functionality of jQuery to simplify tasks that are only somewhat common. These bits of code are called plugins, and they are used in conjunction with the jQuery library to make coding complex interactions, widgets, and effects as simple as using the features already built into jQuery.

You'll find a library of hundreds of jQuery plugins on the official jQuery site at http://plugins.jquery.com. In addition to this, there are literally thousands more available from sites across the Web for just about any task you want to accomplish...

Simple custom tooltips

Browsers automatically create tooltips when you include the title attribute on your HTML element. Titles are usually used on links and images, but they can be added to nearly every type of HTML element. When your site visitors hover their mouse cursor over an element with a title attribute or move focus to the item by tabbing to it using the keyboard, the tooltip will appear—usually as a small yellow box that appears to be floating over the page.

Tooltips are a great way to add a little additional information to your page. Screen reader software reads out tooltip text for site visitors with disabilities who are using assistive technology, making them useful for enhancing accessibility. Furthermore, the title attributes on images and links can help search engines index your content more effectively.

I hope I've convinced you that the title attributes are great for enhancing both the usability and the accessibility of your site. The only problem with tooltips...

Time for action – simple custom tooltips

We'll start off by creating a simple replacement for the browser's default tooltips that we can style any way we'd like. Perform the following steps:

  1. Set up a basic HTML file and associated files and folders like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. Our HTML file should contain a list of images with the title attributes as follows:
    <div class="content">
  <h2 id="pb-gallery">Photo Gallery</h2>
  <ul class="gallery">
    <li><img src="images/bridge.jpg" title="One of many bridges in Pittsburgh"/></li>
    <li><img src="images/downtown.jpg" title="Downtown Pittsburgh with bridges"/></li>
    <li><img src="images/icecream.jpg" title="A great way to beat the summer heat"/></li>
  </ul>
</div>

    Feel free to use CSS to style this list in the way like...

Customizing PowerTip's appearance

The default PowerTip style displays the tooltip centered above the item that we're hovering our mouse over. The PowerTip plugin offers lots of options to customize where the tooltip appears and what it looks like. It does so in a straightforward and easy-to-understand way.

Simple tabs

If we have a large amount of information to present that might not be relevant to all site visitors, we can compress the amount of space the information takes by hiding selected bits of information until the user requests it. One of the most common ways of making all the information available but hidden until requested is tabs. Tabs echo the real-world example of a tabbed notebook or labeled folders in a filing cabinet, and are easy for site visitors to understand. Believe it or not, they're also easy to implement with jQuery.

The following screenshot gives us an idea of what our page will look like after we've created our tabs:

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>
...

Designer, meet plugins

We've already talked about how programmers solve the same problems over and over again. It's these common tasks that jQuery simplifies so that we can accomplish these tasks with a minimum amount of code. What about the tasks that are only somewhat common, like the ability to customize the appearance of tooltips?

That's where the jQuery community becomes important. Developers in the jQuery community write code that extends the functionality of jQuery to simplify tasks that are only somewhat common. These bits of code are called plugins, and they are used in conjunction with the jQuery library to make coding complex interactions, widgets, and effects as simple as using the features already built into jQuery.

You'll find a library of hundreds of jQuery plugins on the official jQuery site at http://plugins.jquery.com. In addition to this, there are literally thousands more available from sites across the Web for just about any task you want to accomplish.

To create custom...

Simple custom tooltips

Browsers automatically create tooltips when you include the title attribute on your HTML element. Titles are usually used on links and images, but they can be added to nearly every type of HTML element. When your site visitors hover their mouse cursor over an element with a title attribute or move focus to the item by tabbing to it using the keyboard, the tooltip will appear—usually as a small yellow box that appears to be floating over the page.

Tooltips are a great way to add a little additional information to your page. Screen reader software reads out tooltip text for site visitors with disabilities who are using assistive technology, making them useful for enhancing accessibility. Furthermore, the title attributes on images and links can help search engines index your content more effectively.

I hope I've convinced you that the title attributes are great for enhancing both the usability and the accessibility of your site. The only problem with tooltips is that they...

Time for action – simple custom tooltips

We'll start off by creating a simple replacement for the browser's default tooltips that we can style any way we'd like. Perform the following steps:

  1. Set up a basic HTML file and associated files and folders like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. Our HTML file should contain a list of images with the title attributes as follows:

    <div class="content">
  <h2 id="pb-gallery">Photo Gallery</h2>
  <ul class="gallery">
    <li><img src="images/bridge.jpg" title="One of many bridges in Pittsburgh"/></li>
    <li><img src="images/downtown.jpg" title="Downtown Pittsburgh with bridges"/></li>
    <li><img src="images/icecream.jpg" title="A great way to beat the summer heat"/></li>
  </ul>
</div>

    Feel free to use CSS to style this list in the way like. If you open the page in a browser and move your mouse over the images, you'll see the text that's contained in the...

Customizing PowerTip's appearance

The default PowerTip style displays the tooltip centered above the item that we're hovering our mouse over. The PowerTip plugin offers lots of options to customize where the tooltip appears and what it looks like. It does so in a straightforward and easy-to-understand way.

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A step-by-step guide that spices up your web pages and designs them in the way you want using the most widely used JavaScript library, jQuery. The beginner-friendly and easy-to-understand approach of the book will help get to grips with jQuery in no time. If you know the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, and want to extend your knowledge by learning to use JavaScript, then this is just the book for you. jQuery makes JavaScript straightforward and approachable – you'll be surprised at how easy it can be to add animations and special effects to your beautifully designed pages.

What you will learn

  • Download and include the jQuery library on your website
  • Make tabbed interfaces and custom tooltips
  • Construct an accordion to improve an FAQ page
  • Build an interactive, animated dropdown menu
  • Show images, videos, and other content in lightboxes
  • Create slideshows, sliders, and carousels
  • Improve responsive designs and topography
  • React to users scrolling down your page
  • Improve forms to make them more beautiful and more usable

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14 Chapters
1. Designer, Meet jQuery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Designer, Meet jQuery
What is jQuery?
Why is jQuery awesome for designers?
JavaScript basics
Designer, Meet JavaScript
Downloading jQuery and getting set up
Time for action – downloading and attaching jQuery
Another option for using jQuery
Your first jQuery script
Time for action – getting ready for jQuery
Adding a paragraph
Time for action – adding a new paragraph
Summary
2. Enhancing Links Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Enhancing Links
Simple tabs
Time for action – creating simple tabs
Designer, meet plugins
Simple custom tooltips
Time for action – simple custom tooltips
Customizing PowerTip's appearance
Time for action – customizing PowerTip
Enhancing navigation with tooltips
Time for action – building a fancy navigation bar
Showing other content in tooltips
Time for action – showing custom content in tooltips
Summary
3. Making a Better FAQ Page Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Making a Better FAQ Page
Marking up the FAQ page
Time for action – setting up the HTML file
Time for action – moving around an HTML document
Sprucing up our FAQ page
Time for action – making it fancy
We're almost there!
Time for action – adding some final touches
Summary
4. Building an Interactive Navigation Menu Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Building an Interactive Navigation Menu
The horizontal drop-down menu
Time for action – creating a horizontal drop-down menu
The vertical fly-out menu
Time for action – creating a vertical fly-out menu
Customizing the navigation menu
Styling the :focus pseudoclass
Time for action – customizing Superfish menus
The hoverIntent plugin
Time for action – incorporating custom animations
Summary
5. Showing Content in Lightboxes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Showing Content in Lightboxes
A simple photo gallery
Time for action – setting up a simple photo gallery
Customizing Colorbox's behavior
Time for action – using a custom transition
Time for action – setting a fixed size
Time for action – creating a slideshow
Fancy login
Time for action – creating a fancy login form
Video player
Time for action – showing a video in a lightbox
A one-page web gallery
Time for action – creating a one-page web gallery
Summary
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6. Creating Slideshows and Sliders
Planning a slideshow or slider
A simple crossfade slideshow
Time for action – creating a simple crossfade slideshow
Using the Basic Slider plugin
Time for action – building a Basic Slider
Creating a Cycle2 slideshow
Time for action – building a slideshow with Cycle2
The Cycle2 carousel
Time for action – building a Cycle2 carousel
Combining a carousel with a slideshow
Time for action – creating the carousel controller
Time for action – adding the slideshow
Time for action – connecting the carousel and the slider
Summary
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7. Working with Responsive Designs
Using FitVids for responsive videos
Time for action – resizing videos
Responsive menus
Time for action – making our menu responsive
Creating a tiled layout
Time for action – creating a masonry layout
Time for action – creating a tiled layout with different width items
Summary
8. Getting the Most from Images Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Getting the Most from Images
Lazy loading images
Time for action – lazy loading images
Creating zoomable images
Time for action – creating zoomable images
Time for action – creating multiple zoomable images
Using fullscreen backgrounds
Time for action – creating a fullscreen background image
Time for action – creating a fullscreen slideshow
Summary
9. Improving Typography Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Improving Typography
Sizing headlines perfectly
Time for action – sizing headlines to the screen width
Creating bold text blocks
Time for action – creating a bold text block with SlabText
Styling individual letters
Time for action – using Lettering.js to style letters
Setting text on a curve
Time for action – setting text on a curve with the ArcText plugin
Summary
10. Displaying Data Beautifully Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Displaying Data Beautifully
A basic data grid
Time for action – creating a basic data grid
A customized data grid
Time for action – customizing the data grid
Showing graphs and charts
Time for action – showing data in graphs and charts
Time for action – creating a pie chart
Time for action – calculating the ideal size for charts and graphs
Summary
11. Reacting to Scrolling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Reacting to Scrolling
Setting up the document
Time for action – setting up the HTML file
Time for action – setting up HTML for Scrollorama
Time for action – creating a parallax effect
Time for action – creating a horizontal animation
Time for action – adding navigation to sections of the page
Summary
12. Improving Forms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Improving Forms
An HTML5 web form
Time for action – setting up an HTML5 web form
Setting focus
Time for action – setting focus to the first field
Validating site visitor entry
Time for action – validating form values on the fly
Improving the appearance
Time for action – improving form appearance
Time for action – adding Fancyform to style the unstyleable
Summary
A. Pop Quiz Answers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery
Chapter 2, Enhancing Links
Chapter 4, Building an Interactive Navigation Menu
Chapter 5, Showing Content in Lightboxes
Chapter 6, Creating Slideshows and Sliders
Chapter 7, Working with Responsive Designs
Chapter 8, Getting the Most from Images
Chapter 9, Improving Typography
Chapter 10, Displaying Data Beautifully
Chapter 11, Reacting to Scrolling
Chapter 12, Improving Forms
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This book is designed for the designers who have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS and would like to advance their skill set by learning basic JavaScript. If you have not written any JavaScript before, then this book will help you in writing your first JavaScript code using jQuery library.Now let’s dive into each of the chapters to find out more.Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery, is an introduction to the jQuery library and JavaScript. In this chapter authors talks about the following points in a simple manner:1. ‹What jQuery is and why it’s ideal for designers ‹2. Progressive enhancement and graceful degradation3. JavaScript basics ‹4. Downloading jQuery5. Your first jQuery scriptIt is a wonderful chapter to begin with as it has beautifully introduced jQuery to people in a very easy and step-by-step manner.Chapter 2, Enhancing Links, will teach you how to use jQuery to turn a list of links into simple tabs. And also explains how to customise tool tips and introduces one to plugin concept. Author highlights the HTML mark up, then adds small chunks of jQuery code and finally completes the demonstration with CSS addition.Readers’ can test their understanding through Pop Quiz introduced in the chapter.Chapter 3, Making a Better FAQ Page, will help you to learn the following sub-topics:1. ‹How to traverse an HTML document with jQuery2. How to show and hide elements3. How to use simple jQuery animations4. How to easily toggle a class name for an elementAs before, step-by-step html code creation, adding jQuery scripts to it and explanation of those code blocks will definitely help people in understanding jQuery concepts.For complete review of the book, please visit http://pulakonline.com
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Clear and concise, Natalie's exposition is a fitted approach for designers who want to learn the basic principles of web creation nowadays. Among other things, It shows the most trending practices in web design as grateful degradation and css3 shapes as a sort of examples. First to note, it's how carefully shows the programming concepts, and jquery ones to people who are not in a development role.His main strength it's the metodism used to explain step by step each of the solutions proposed to solve common design scenarios. Starting with a common project structure, next the solution for JavaScript disabled browsers and then the jQuery plugin chosen for the chapter.But, this comes with some drawbacks, though. Originally, it seems that the readers are going to learn programming skills, exclusively jQuery, at a minimum level to do theirs work. However, after a short introduction to jQuery, the book is based more in how to use a sort of chosen jQuery plugins than to learn basic skills to get benefits from that. The title seems contradictory and the readers may fall down in a recipe way read, sometimes bored, or sometimes repetitive. I appreciate the selected plugins and the concepts around design that provides along the chapters, but it lacks of jQuery learning basis, as the title suggest. Finally, no developers can get benefits from this reading, unluckily, while designers may get some tools, filtered by the author, and a short introduction to these, so that they can start improving their web sites in few minutes.
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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