jQuery Compressed by Jakob Jenkov

Description

The books examples are verified to work with jQuery 1.7

jQuery is a JavaScript API that makes it easy to make your HTML pages come to life. In other words, jQuery makes it easy to modify HTML elements while the page is displayed in the browser. You can show / hide elements, create / remove elements, change CSS classes and properties, react to mouse and keyboard events, use AJAX etc.

“jQuery Compressed” teaches web developers how to use jQuery. The book is targeted at somewhat experienced developers, who already know what HTML, the DOM and JavaScript is.

Table of Contents

– Introduction
– Overview
– Installation
– The $(document).ready() Event
– The $() and the jQuery() Function
– Selecting Elements
– Traversing Elements
– CSS Manipulation
– DOM Manipulation
– Attaching Data to DOM Elements
– Events
– Effects
– AJAX
– Plugins
– jQuery UI
– Form Handling with AJAX
– Generating a Table of Contents
– Creating an Expandable Tree
– Generating a Data Grid Table

Note: The chapter on jQuery UI does not actually describe how to use jQuery UI. It only tells the reader that the framework exists, and where to read more. jQuery UI is an extensive topic and can take up a book in itself.