JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development

by Jon Duckett

This full–color book adopts a visual approach to teaching JavaScript & jQuery, showing you how to make web pages more interactive and interfaces more intuitive through the use of inspiring code examples, infographics, and photography. The content assumes no previous programming experience, other than knowing how to create a basic web page in HTML & CSS. You′ll learn how to achieve techniques seen on many popular websites (such as adding animation, tabbed panels, content sliders, form validation, interactive galleries, and sorting data).. Introduces core programming concepts in JavaScript and jQuery Uses clear descriptions, inspiring examples, and easy–to–follow diagrams Teaches you how to create scripts from scratch, and understand the thousands of JavaScripts, JavaScript APIs, and jQuery plugins that are available on the web Demonstrates the latest practices in progressive enhancement, cross–browser compatibility, and when you may be better off using CSS3 If you′re looking to create more enriching web experiences and express your creativity through code, then this is the book for you. This book is also available as part of a set in hardcover – Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, 9781119038634 – and in softcover – Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery .

Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2020

About the author

Jon Duckett has been designing and building web sites for over a decade, working with global brands, and has authored and co-authored over a dozen books on web design, programming, usability and accessibility. He has curated conferences about web programming and has been a web strategy consultant, often coding front ends for projects and designing architectures for back end programming. He is the author of the best-selling, HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites and JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development.