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Learning  jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

You're reading from   Learning jQuery : Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2007
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847192509
Length 380 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Learning jQuery
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Selectors—How to Get Anything You Want 3. Events—How to Pull the Trigger 4. Effects—How to Add Flair to Your Actions 5. DOM Manipulation—How to Change Your Page on Command 6. AJAX—How to Make Your Site Buzzword-Compliant 7. Table Manipulation 8. Forms with Function 9. Shufflers and Rotators 10. Plug-ins 1. Online Resources 2. Development Tools 3. JavaScript Closures

How to Use a Plug-in


Using a jQuery plug-in is very straightforward. The first step is to include it in the <head> of the document, making sure that it appears after the main jQuery source file:

<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
                                                  charset=utf-8"/>
  <script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script src="jquery.plug-in.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="custom.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <title>Example</title>
</head>

After that, it’s just a matter of including a custom JavaScript file in which we use the methods that the plug-in either creates or extends. For example, using the Form plug-in, we can add a single line inside our custom file’s $(document).ready() method to make a form submit via AJAX:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#myForm').ajaxForm();
});

Many plug-ins have a bit of built-in flexibility...

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