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description: Add to your current website development skills with this brilliant guide to JQuery. This step by step course needs little prior JavaScript knowledge so is suitable for beginners and more seasoned developers alike. Overview In Detail To build interesting interactive sites developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency. LearningjQuery - Fourth Edition is revised and updated version of jQuery. You will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX events effects and advanced JavaScript language features. Starting with an introduction to jQuery you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create copy reassemble and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. The book will take you through many detailed real-world examples and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins. What you will learn from this book Approach We will step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques. 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. Basic JavaScript programming and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries. 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 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 a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is also responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife Jennifer.
language: English
title: Learning jQuery
publisher: Packt Publishing