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jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook As a web developer, you can benefit greatly from this book - whatever your skill level. Learn how to build dynamic modern websites using jQuery. Packed with recipes, it will quickly take you from beginner to expert.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280896
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Leon Revill Leon Revill
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Preface 1. Document Object Model Manipulation FREE CHAPTER 2. Interacting with the User by Making Use of jQuery Events 3. Loading and Manipulating Dynamic Content with AJAX and JSON 4. Adding Attractive Visuals with jQuery Effects 5. Form Handling 6. User Interface 7. User Interface Animation 8. Understanding Plugin Development 9. jQuery UI 10. Working with jQuery Mobile Index

Implementing the send SMS functionality


The previous recipe covered making a call directly from your mobile website. Making it easy for the user to send an SMS is also a useful feature. This recipe will show you how to add a button that, when clicked, will open the default SMS client on the user's device.

Getting ready

Create recipe-5.html in the chapter10 folder you created before starting this chapter.

How to do it…

It is easy to allow users to be able to quickly send an SMS message to you via your mobile website. Perform the following simple steps to learn how:

  1. Once more, using the jQuery Mobile template created in the first recipe of this chapter, create a simple mobile website within recipe-5.html using the following code:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>Chapter 10 :: Recipe 5</title>
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery-mobile/jquery.mobile.min.css" />
        &lt...
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