Who This Book Is For
Maybe you’re a designer who is intrigued by the interactivity that jQuery can provide. Maybe you’re a frontend developer who has worked with jQuery before and wants to see how other people accomplish common tasks. Maybe you’re a server-side developer
who’s frequently called upon to write client-side code.
Truth be told, this cookbook will be valuable to anyone who works with jQuery—or who hopes to work with jQuery. If you’re just starting out with the library, you may want to consider pairing this book with Learning jQuery 1.3 from Packt, or jQuery in Action from Manning. If you’re already using jQuery in your projects, this book will serve to enhance your knowledge of the library’s features, hidden gems, and idiosyncrasies.
What You’ll Learn
We’ll start out by covering the basics and general best practices—including jQuery in your page, making selections, and traversing and manipulation. Even frequent jQuery users are likely to pick up a tip or two. From there, we move on to real-world use cases,
walking you through tried-and-true (and tested) solutions to frequent problems involving events, effects, dimensions, forms, and user interface elements (with and without the help of jQuery UI). In the end, we’ll take a look at testing your jQuery applications and integrating jQuery into complex sites.
Along the way, you’ll learn strategies for leveraging jQuery to solve problems that go far beyond the basics. We’ll explore how to make the most of jQuery’s event management system, including custom events and custom event data; how to progressively enhance forms; how to position and reposition elements on the page; how to create user interface elements such as tabs, accordions, and modals from scratch; how to craft
your code for readability and maintainability; how to optimize your code to ease testing, eliminate bottlenecks, and ensure peak performance; and more.
Because this is a cookbook and not a manual, you’re of course welcome to cherry-pick the recipes you read; the individual recipes alone are worth the price of admission. As a whole, though, the book provides a rare glimpse into the problem-solving approaches of some of the best and brightest in the jQuery community. With that in mind, we encourage you to at least skim it from front to back—you never know which line of
code will provide the “Aha!” moment you need to take your skills to the next level.
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