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Author: Jonathan Chaffer
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About the Author
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 in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. He also leads on-site training seminars on the jQuery framework for web developers.
In the open-source community, Jonathan 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, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference. Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.
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, Karl is responsible for maintaining the jQuery API site at api.jquery.com. He also publishes tutorials on his blog, learningjquery.com, and presents at workshops and conferences. When he isn't coding, Karl likes to hang out with his family, roast coffee in his garage, and exercise at the local cross-fit gym.
Books with free ebook downloads available Free Learning jQuery, Third Edition
- Paperback: 428 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing; 3 edition (September 23, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849516545
- ISBN-13: 978-1849516549
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.4 x 9.1 inches
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Free Learning jQuery, Third Edition
Chapter 1: Getting Started
The book starts off with a quick introduction to jQuery, what it does and why it works so well. As the authors point out one of the great things you learn about jQuery right away is that it abstracts away browser quirks for you. With most browsers putting out a new version every few months this becomes a solid benefit for using jQuery.
The chapter includes an example (the HTML in the sample has been updated to HTML5) to inject a new CSS class to a particular DIV on the page. They demonstrate how this could be done without jQuery using plain JavaScript so you can see how much time jQuery saves you in terms of the amount of code you would need to write otherwise.
The chapter finishes off with a quick mention and demo (using Firebug) of some tools you can use to help work with jQuery more efficiently when your writing code.
Chapter 2: Selecting Elements
The basics are laid out in this chapter like the DOM and how HTML pages are structured, the $() function, CSS selectors and custom selectors. Each topic is shown either in code or an image to better represent it to the reader. The code examples are easy yet practical and even a beginner in HTML/JavaScript shouldn't have much of a problem following along. The sub-topics in the chapter are then used to introduce things like DOM traversal methods (their example of styling specific cells is useful), chaining, and ends off with accessing DOM elements.
Chapter 3: Handling Events
Towards the start of this chapter there is a good hint they mention regarding putting your style tags before the script tags in your HTML page, that way you know your page has been styled before any script has been run.
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