Learning Jquery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

By Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer

Book Overview

jQuery 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847192505
• ISBN13: 9781847192509
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The most useful examples that I have ever seen.

While there are a lot of Javascript libraries out there, there's something special about jQuery. Right when you start to use it, it just feels right. Of course, trying to sell a manager or a co-worker on, "it just feels right", rarely works; it's important to be able to list out the reasons why something is good. This book does that for you - the very first chapter starts out by taking what you feel in your gut and wrapping...

Groovy jQuery Introduction Book

I'm a huge fan and avid user of jQuery and have been extremely impressed by the documentation provided on the jQuery website. The one thing that documentation lacks, however, is really contextual examples that drive home some bare essentials of JavaScripting with the jQuery library. Learning jQuery - a book by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg - is an excellent introductory book for those that are thinking about using (or...

Now THIS is documentation...

§ One of the valid criticisms of the profusion of JavaScript frameworks is lack of documentation. This valuable book is the best possible boost to jQuery, one of the most popular frameworks in the pack. This documentation provides a gentle introduction to jQuery concepts and at the same time gives you the tools and examples to do some wickedly cool stuff. Although jQuery is advanced JavaScript, you don't have to be an advanced...

Even beginners will like this book

Having authored about 25 computer books on programming and published about 200 ([...]), I found Learning jQuery a real treasure. I am a real noobie in jQuery and the book assumes that yoiu are proficient in both css and javascript. I discovered jQuery almost by accident, while I was struggling to tame some of the new features in Dreamweaver (effects). I was blown away by all the power it offered and the enormous number of...

Keeping it FUN

The more people learn about jQuery the more they use the word FUN! This is a great boot camp book on doing jQuery. The AJAX examples are in PHP and I would have liked some in ColdFusion, but that didn't cause a single problem in understanding the teaching in the book! If you are doing internet and need to start making your pages "dynamic" with javascript and the DOM this is a right way to do it. Get the book and you may never...