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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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Natalie Maclees Natalie Maclees
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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 – adding navigation to sections of the page

Perform the following steps to add navigation to our weather forecast:

  1. Open up scripts.js. The first thing we want to do is create an unordered list to hold our navigation. After the animation code we wrote earlier, but still inside the document ready statement, add the following bit of code:
    var dotnav = $('<ul id="dotnav"></ul>');

    First, we create a variable, dotnav. Recall that a variable is just a container. Inside this container, we're going to create a jQuery object that holds an unordered list with the id attribute of dotnav.

  2. Now that we've got our unordered list, the next thing we'll do is add it to our document. That's easy enough, just one short line of code:
    var dotnav = $('<ul id="dotnav"></ul>');
    $('body').append(dotnav);

    We're selecting the <body> element of the document and appending our navigation to the end...

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