jQuery Compressed

by Jakob Jenkov

2nd EditionThe books examples are verified to work with jQuery 1.11.0 and 2.1.0 . jQuery is a JavaScript API that makes it easy to make your HTML pages come to life. In other words, jQuery makes it easy to modify HTML elements while the page is displayed in the browser. You can show / hide elements, create / remove elements, change CSS classes and properties, react to mouse and keyboard events, use AJAX etc. This makes jQuery the ideal base for RIA (Rich Internet Applications)."jQuery Compressed" teaches web developers how to use jQuery. The book is targeted at somewhat experienced developers, who already know what HTML, the DOM and JavaScript is. The book is full of examples which makes it easier to get up to speed fast.Table of Contents - Introduction (updated, 2nd ed.) - Overview - Installation - The $(document).ready() Event - The $() and the jQuery() Function - Selecting Elements - Traversing Elements - CSS Manipulation - DOM Manipulation - Attaching Data to DOM Elements - Events - Effects - AJAX (updated, 2nd ed.) - Plugins - jQuery UI - Zebra Striping Tables (new, 2nd ed.) - Form Handling with AJAX - Modal Dialogs (new, 2nd ed.) - Generating a Table of Contents - Creating an Expandable Tree - Generating a Data Grid The chapter on jQuery UI does not actually describe how to use jQuery UI. It only tells the reader that the framework exists, and where to read more. jQuery UI is an extensive topic and can take up a book in itself.Second edition of this book contains new content in - Introduction (updated) - AJAX (updated) - Zebra Striping Tables (new)- Modial Dialogs (new)

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Technical

170 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a short book that gives you a summary of the major pieces of jQuery and does a pretty good job explaining when and why you would use each piece. When and why is what's usually missing from programming books, and Jenkov does a good job with just giving enough API documentation to illustrate his point, without getting bloated.

This book is good for someone who is already a programmer and wants to get an overview of what's available in jQuery. It is not good for anyone who is not a programmer or looking for an in depth look at any of jQuery's features.

[Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great value for money on this book. This book is very much an introductory book to jQuery, not an advanced reference book. The text is clear and the examples do a good job of showing the basics of jQuery.

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

A concise guide with good examples. Very inexpensive from the kindle store. Just what I needed.

[Viktor · Rating 3 out of 5]

cheap, quick, basics

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book for reference and overall summery of functions.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quirky little self-published introduction to jquery. Pretty decent for the price, but the lack of an editor is apparent in some pretty relaxed grammar.

[Twiddly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Old style ajax

This is supposedly updated and even mentions jQuery 2 but example code uses old Ajax success and error.

v2 only on cover, nowhere else?

[Paulius · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick and easy to read. A good book on jQuery basics.