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Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery

You're reading from   Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery Enhance your Joomla! Sites with the power of jQuery extensions, plugins, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849512046
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Let's Start Making a Better Site—Images FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Content—Our Next Step 3. Embedding Rich Media Features with Joomla! Plugins 4. One Last Look at Joomla! jQuery Modules 5. Refactoring Our Site 6. Getting Our Hands on Coding JavaScript 7. Creating Our Own Modules 8. Building Complete Solutions, Modules, and Components 9. Going Further with Our Component Development 10. Problems and Usability Index

Using Firebug to help us in our development


Firebug, like the Web Developer toolbar, is another very useful extension, especially when developing JavaScript. But Firebug can be used for many other things, such as exploring the HTML or CSS of our site.

Like the previous extension, we can download this Firefox extension from the Firefox add-ons site at https://addons.mozilla.org.

Once installed, Firebug needs to be enabled from the add-ons screen:

Once enabled, a new button will appear at the bottom right-hand side of the Firefox browser. You will notice a tiny icon that looks like the previous icon, but smaller, as follows:

Once we click on this button, a new panel will appear with some tabs that we can see in the following screenshot:

How we can use two of these tabs, Console and HTML, is something that we are just about to find out.

Using Firebug to log messages

When working with JavaScript, especially AJAX, it's quite useful to know what is happening. For example, in our mod_littlecontact...

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