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You're reading from Learning jQuery, Third Edition Create better interaction, design, and web development with simple JavaScript techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849516549

Length 428 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

jQuery

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Authors (2):

Jonathan Chaffer

Karl Swedberg

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Selecting Elements

3. Handling Events

4. Styling and Animating

5. Manipulating the DOM

6. Sending Data with Ajax

7. Using Plugins

8. Developing Plugins

9. Advanced Selectors and Traversing

10. Advanced Events

11. Advanced Effects

12. Advanced DOM Manipulation

13. Advanced Ajax

A. JavaScript Closures

B. Testing JavaScript with QUnit

C. Quick Reference

Index

Exercises

To complete these exercises, you will need the index.html file for this chapter, as well as the finished JavaScript code as found in complete.js. These files can be downloaded from the Packt Publishing website at http://www.packtpub.com/support.

The challenge exercises may require use of the official jQuery documentation at http://api.jquery.com/.

Create new plugin methods called .slideFadeIn() and .slideFadeOut(), combining the opacity animations of .fadeIn() and .fadeOut() with the height animations of .slideDown() and .slideUp().
Extend the customizability of the .shadow() method so that the z-index of the cloned copies can be specified by the plugin user. Add a new sub-method called isOpen to the tooltip widget. This sub-method should return true if the tooltip is currently displayed and false otherwise.
Add code that listens for the tooltipopen event that our widget fires, and logs a message to the console.
Challenge: Provide an alternative content option for the tooltip widget...

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Authors (2)

Jonathan Chaffer

Jonathan Chaffer is a member of Rapid Development Group, a web development firm located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work there includes overseeing and implementing projects in a wide variety of technologies, with an emphasis on PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. In the open source community, he has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, now a part of the Drupal core used to manage structured content. He is also responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference. In his spare time, he designs board and card games for the hobby market. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

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Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Fusionary Media in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time making cool things happen with JavaScript. As a member of the jQuery team, he is responsible for maintaining the jQuery API site at api.jquery.com. He is also a member of jQuery's Board of Advisors and a presenter at workshops and conferences. When he isn't coding, he likes to hang out with his family, roast coffee in his garage, and exercise at the local CrossFit gym.

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