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Learning jQuery, Third Edition

You're reading from   Learning jQuery, Third Edition Create better interaction, design, and web development with simple JavaScript techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516549
Length 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Learning jQuery Third Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Selecting Elements 3. Handling Events 4. Styling and Animating 5. Manipulating the DOM 6. Sending Data with Ajax 7. Using Plugins 8. Developing Plugins 9. Advanced Selectors and Traversing 10. Advanced Events 11. Advanced Effects 12. Advanced DOM Manipulation 13. Advanced Ajax JavaScript Closures Testing JavaScript with QUnit Quick Reference Index

Event delegation


Recall that in order to implement event delegation, we check the target property of the event object to see if it matches the element that we want to trigger the behavior. The event target represents the innermost, or most deeply nested, element that is receiving the event. With our sample HTML this time, however, we are presented with a new challenge. The <div class="photo"> elements are unlikely to be the event target as they contain other elements, such as the image itself and the image details. In order to find this <div> from an element it contains, we can use the .closest() method, which works its way up the DOM from parent to parent until it finds an element that matches a given selector expression. If no elements are found, then it acts like any other DOM traversal method, returning a new "empty" jQuery object, as follows:

// Unfinished code
$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#gallery').bind('mouseover mouseout', function(event) {
    var $target = $...
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