Product DescriptionjQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular jQuery learning resource, learningquery.com, share their knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from the library and to make your web applications shine. For designers, jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. This book provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions and animations to your pages-even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled. For programmers, jQuery offers an open -source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features, as well as provide you with a reference to the jQuery library to return to again and again. This book begins with a tutorial to jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side problems, and solutions for each of them. A detailed reference rounds off the book, making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your jQuery questions. Who this book is written for This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries required.
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Rating: - Wonderful book at connecting the dots.
OK... we have all heard jQuery is the in library from someone somewhere. Yet, it does so much and it does it differently. How do we shift gears and get into the library. This book is well thought out and covers the basics and beyond in a very friendly fashion. I want more details than can be contained in a book of this size, lol. We all want the books to cost less and contain more. But one of the key ways I rate books is how well did the concepts of the book sink into my brain on the first read, ... Read More
Rating: - Use JavaScript the easy way with jQuery
I've used JavaScript for 9 years and have hated the way it needs to be developed differently for different browsers. And there are the little gotchas that take way too long to run down in forums. Enter jQuery.
The jQuery JavaScript library takes the pain out of using JavaScript. It handles the browsers and leaves us free to simply add functionality to websites in a logical and consistent way. Learning jQuery teaches jQuery in a best practices manner without preaching and makes adding ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic.
This book is great. It teaches jQuery very effectively and in a manner that all people can understand. I highly recommend it to anyone needing/wanting to learn jQuery.
Rating: - The second and last javascript book you will ever need
I call this the second javascript book that you will ever need because you will first need some background and understanding in javascript such as from: Simply JavaScript. However, once you begin working with Javascript you'll find yourself wishing for an easier way to accomplish numerous tedious tasks. The solution is jQuery an open source javascript library that is supported by a sharp team of developers. Jquery uses an OOPS approach to many common tasks and provides a framework to accomplish ... Read More
Rating: - Great intro book
very complete overview of the topic with well layed out examples. The reference book is a better long term value.
- Wonderful book at connecting the dots.
