jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook

Get more done faster with jQuery and JavaScript! Brad Dayley’s jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebookbrings together 100+ instantly useful code snippets and idioms for performing a wide spectrum of common web application tasks. This hands-on guide gets straight to the essence of what’s new and important in jQuery and JavaScript, and what you need to know to build new web solutions or migrate existing sites to jQuery.

Building on JavaScript Phrasebook, Dayley presents carefully tested, flexible, adaptable code – all organized for quick lookup and easy use. Dayley’s coverage ranges from the basics to advanced jQuery capabilities, including jQueryUI widgets and mobile development. Coverage includes:

• Basics, including selecting and manipulating HTML elements with jQuery Selector
• Dynamically manipulating CSS values
• Handling browser and DOM events
• Performing validation
• Server communication
• REST, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, and JSON/XML data
• Positioning web page elements and making them interactive
• Using animation and other special effects
• And much more

jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook is the perfect quick reference for millions of web developers who want reliable solutions they can use right now — with no distractions and no diversions!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Jumping into jQuery, JavaScript, and the World of Dynamic Web Development
Chapter 2. Using the JavaScript Language
Chapter 3. Interacting with the Browser
Chapter 4. Accessing HTML Elements
Chapter 5. Manipulating the jQuery Object Set
Chapter 6. Capturing and Using Browser and User Events
Chapter 7. Manipulating Web Page Elements Dynamically
Chapter 8. Manipulating Web Page Layout Dynamically
Chapter 9. Dynamically Working With Form Elements
Chapter 10. Building Web Page Content Dynamically
Chapter 11. Adding jQuery UI Elements
Chapter 12. Animation and other Special Effects
Chapter 13. Using AJAX to Communicate with Web Servers and Web Services
Chapter 14. Implementing Mobile Web Sites with jQuery