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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

Chapter 10. Plug-ins

 

Like a plug without a socket

I’m just waitin’ ‘round for you

 
 -- Devo, “Don’t You Know”

Throughout this book we have examined many of the ways in which the jQuery library can be used to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. Yet one aspect that has remained relatively unexplored is jQuery’s extensibility. As powerful as the library is at its core, its elegant plug-in architecture has allowed developers to extend jQuery, making it an even more feature-rich library.

Although jQuery has been available for less than two years, it already supports over a hundred plug-ins—from small selector helpers to full-scale, user-interface widgets. In this chapter we’ll take a brief look at three popular jQuery plug-ins and then create a few of our own.

We’ve already discussed the power of plug-ins and created a simple one in Chapter 7. Here, we’ll look at the way for incorporating pre-existing plug-ins into our web pages and examine how to build our own plug-in in more detail.

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