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jQuery: Visual QuickStart Guide
- By Steven Holzner
- Published Jun 30, 2009 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Visual QuickStart Guide series.
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 7 X 9
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-64749-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-64749-8
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-321-67969-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-67969-7
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jQuery is a popular JavaScript library that simplifies event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. Many companies are using jQuery including: Amazon, Google, Twitter, Bank of America, BBC, ESPN, CBS News, Digg, Reuters, IBM, Netflix, Dell, Oracle, Slashdot, Tecnorati, and Intuit.
Even casual web designers, who create web pages for fun, want to add the latest cool effects to their sites, and jQuery--the fast, flexible JavaScript library--is a tool of choice. Just as CSS separates "display" characteristics from the HTML structure, jQuery separates the "behavior" characteristics from the HTML structure. From visual effects, special controls, and Ajax made easy, the jQuery Visual QuickStart Guide will teach readers how to make the most of jQuery using the task-based, step-by-step, visual format they love. It's crammed with examples and there's a special section on widgets.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Good content - poor editing, By
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I'm glad I bought this book. It serves as it's title suggests, giving you a quick, painless start to using jQuery. The book's general layout is to use a single page to show you the functionality of a single jQuery method. Don't expect to see any in-depth description with this book. You'll definitely want to read another or do some online work after reading it, but after you finish this book, you will realize that jQuery is not as intimidating as you may have thought, which will make your reading of subsequent jQuery books easier.I didn't expect this to be an entirely satisfying reference on the subject, but what really irritated me is that this book is chock full of errors that should have been caught before it was published. Most of the errors won't prevent the scripts from running, and in the cases where it would, if you have any experience with html, you'll realize the error as you're typing the script. For instance, for most of the first half of the book, a script is... Read more
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
jQuery Visual QuickStart is a Practical Cookbook, By
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This installment in the Visual QuickStart series is another predictably useful volume. Like some of the other books in the VQS series this one is primarily a cookbook of code samples. Want to know how to hide an HTML element? Check pages 16-17. Want to know how to bind an event handler to an event? See pp. 82-83. Want to employ visual effects such as fading page elements in and out? Or slide elements up and down? It's all here and lots more.The downside of this cookbook approach is that much of the book is boilerplate. As you proceed through the book, you quickly become familiar with the drill. Each two-page section covers a single jQuery feature. Each one starts with a few short paragraphs of explanation and is followed by sample code and step-by-step instructions for entering it. Some of this repetition is tedious and unnecessary. You don't need to tell a JavaScript coder to "open a text editor (such as Microsoft WordPad)..." in every example throughout the book (and... Read more
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Too many errors, By tra namloc "trAnamloC" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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I don't usually trash books but the jQuery Visual QuickStart Guide comes close to a work of fiction. The problem is with the errors in the examples that really interfere with the ability of the reader to quickly and easily learn jQuery.However, if you like challenges and puzzles this is an excellent book as it provides real life examples of "What's wrong with this picture?" (Why won't the example run.) Sorry. Cannot recommend. |
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Essential jQuery
Chapter 2: Selecting Elements the jQuery Way
Chapter 3: Working with Elements
Chapter 4: Working with Events
Chapter 5: Visual Effects and Animation
Chapter 6: The jQuery Utility Functions
Chapter 7: Jumping into Ajax
Chapter 8: Using the Full Power of Ajax
Chapter 9: Using the jQuery Widgets
Index
Errata
Page xi, The code for the book is available at www.peachpit.com/jqueryvqs.
Page 7 - .toggleClass('striped');; - should be .toggleClass('striped');
Page 22 - function slidedown - should be slideDown
Page 31 - :nth-child(index/even/odd/equation - should be :nth-child(index/even/odd/equation)
Page 38 - p:contains("3)) - should be p:contains("3");
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