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jQuery HOTSHOT

You're reading from   jQuery HOTSHOT Ten practical projects that exercise your skill, build your confidence, and help you master jQuery

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849519106
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dan Wellman Dan Wellman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Sliding Puzzle FREE CHAPTER 2. A Fixed Position Sidebar with Animated Scrolling 3. An Interactive Google Map 4. A jQuery Mobile Single-page App 5. jQuery File Uploader 6. Extending Chrome with jQuery 7. Build Your Own jQuery 8. Infinite Scrolling with jQuery 9. A jQuery Heat Map 10. A Sortable, Paged Table with Knockout.js Index

Updating the UI with the start and end locations


Once the two markers have been added to the map, we want to display their locations in the UI sidebar at the right of the page ready for when we compute the cost of the journey.

We'll want to show the full street address of each location that is clicked and also add a button that triggers the computation of a quote based on the locations that the visitor has chosen on the map.

Prepare for Lift Off

In the last task we used Google's trigger() method to trigger a custom event each time a new marker was added to the map following a click. In this task we'll add a handler for that custom event.

So far in this project, we've stuck almost entirely to Google's map API and haven't really used jQuery at all other than to add the initial document.load wrapper for the rest of code. In this part of the project we'll rectify that and fire up jQuery in order to update our UI.

Engage Thrusters

The handler for our custom locationAdd event should be as follows, which...

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