JQuery in Action

Overview

A good book for beginners in jQuery, touches the basics in details, also covers jQuery UI libraries.  

jQuery in Action, Second Edition is a fast paced introduction to jQuery that will take your JavaScript programming to the next level. An in-depth rewrite of the bestselling first edition, this edition provides deep and practical coverage of the latest jQuery and jQuery UI releases. The books unique lab pages anchor the explanation of each new concept in a practical example. you'll learn how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax to your web pages. This comprehensive guide also teaches you how jQuery interacts with other tools and frameworks and how to build jQuery plugins.

Title	JQUERY IN ACTION
Author	Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz
Publisher	Dreamtech Press
Publishing Date	2010
Pages	484
Price	Rs. 599/-
Price @ Flipkart	Rs. 515 after 14% Discount

Table of Contents

Part 1 Core jQuery

Chapter 1 - Introducing jQuery

Power in the economy of code

Unobtrusive JavaScript

jQuery fundamentals

Summary

Chapter 2 - Selecting the elements upon which to act

Selecting elements for manipulation

Generating new HTML

Managing the wrapped element set

Summary

Chapter 3 - Bringing pages to life with jQuery

Working with element properties and attributes

Changing element styling

Setting element content

Dealing with form element values

Summary

Chapters 4 - Events are where it happens!

Understanding the browser event models

The jQuery Event Model

Putting events (and more) to work

Summary

Chapter 5 - Energizing pages with animations and effects

Showing and hiding elements
Animating the display state of elements

Creating custom animations

Animations and Queuing

Summary

Chapter 6 Beyond the DOM with jQuery utility functions

Using the jQuery flags

Using other libraries with jQuery

Manipulating JavaScript objects and collections

Miscellaneous utility functions

Summary

Chapter 7 - Expand your reach by extending jQuery

Why extend jQuery?

The jQuery plugin authoring guidelines

Writing custom utility functions

Adding new wrapper methods

Summary

Chapter 8 - Talk to the server with Ajax

Brushing up on Ajax

Loading content into elements

Making GET and POST requests

Taking full control of an Ajax request

Putting it all together

Summary

Part 2 jQuery UI

Chapter 9 - Introducing jQuery UI: themes and effects
Configuring and downloading the UI library

jQuery themes and styling

jQuery UI Effects

Advanced positioning

Summary

Chapter 10 - jQuery UI mouse interactions: Follow that mouse!

Dragging things around

Dropping dragged things

/ Sorting stuff

Changing the size of things

Making things selectable

Summary

Chapter 11 - jQuery UI widgets: Beyond HTML controls

Buttons and buttonsets

Sliders

Progress bars

Autocompleters

Date pickers

Tabs

Accordions

Dialog boxes

Summary