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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

Time for action – calculating the ideal size for charts and graphs

We'll keep working with the files we created in the previous section. Perform the following steps to dynamically set the width and height of our charts and graphs according to the width of the browser window:

  1. Open your scripts.js file. We'll want to add a few quick calculations. First up, let's set a preferred width for our graphs and charts, as follows:
    $(document).ready(function(){
      var preferredWidth = 450;
    
    
      $('#menu').visualize({
        ...
      });
    
      $('#eaten').addClass('accessHide').visualize({
        ...
      }).appendTo('#pie-container').trigger('visualizeRefresh');
    
    });

    We created a variable named preferredWidth. Recall that a variable is just a container—in this case, the variable contains the size in pixels that we'd like our charts and graphs to appear by default.

  2. Next, we need to get the actual width of the available content area on our...
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