Learn jQuery and JavaScript in 24 one-hour lessons
Sams Teach Yourself jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours helps you build dynamic single-page web apps that deliver the rich experiences your users want.
This book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach shows you how to create effects, animations, lists, complex forms, and more. In just a few hours, you’ll be building great user interfaces for any device, even the newest smartphones and tablets. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success.
- Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common jQuery and JavaScript development tasks.
- Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn.
- Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills
- Notes and tips point out shortcuts and solutions
Learn how to…
- Quickly start building web pages with jQuery and JavaScript
- Master jQuery syntax, logic, functions, and objects
- Efficiently access, manipulate, and navigate DOM elements
- Build highly interactive web pages with events and event handlers
- Implement cookies, pop-up windows, and timers
- Create animations, special effects, and image galleries
- Construct, interact with, and validate forms
- Use advanced elements, such as table filters, custom dialogs, and dynamic sparklines
- Access server-side data via AJAX
- Work with data using JSON, XML, queues, and binding
- Build superior user interfaces more quickly with jQuery UI
- Add richer page interactions with jQuery UI Widgets
- Create mobile-friendly pages with jQuery Mobile
- Customize your mobile pages with jQuery Mobile ThemeRoller
Contents at a Glance
PART I: Introduction to jQuery and JavaScript Development
HOUR 1: Intro to Dynamic Web Programming
HOUR 2: Debugging jQuery and JavaScript Web Pages
HOUR 3: Understanding Dynamic Web Page Anatomy
HOUR 4: Adding CSS/CSS3 Styles to Allow Dynamic Design and Layout
HOUR 5: Jumping into jQuery and JavaScript Syntax
HOUR 6: Understanding and Using JavaScript Objects
PART II: Implementing jQuery and JavaScript in Web Pages
HOUR 7: Accessing DOM Elements Using JavaScript and jQuery Objects
HOUR 8: Navigating and Manipulating jQuery Objects and DOM Elements with jQuery
HOUR 9: Applying Events for Richly Interactive Web Pages
HOUR 10: Dynamically Accessing and Manipulating Web Pages
HOUR 11: Accessing Data Outside the Web Page
PART III: Building Richly Interactive Web Pages
HOUR 12: Enhancing User Interaction Through Animation and Other Special Effects
HOUR 13: Interacting with Web Forms HOUR 14: Creating Advanced Web Page Elements
PART IV: Advanced Concepts
HOUR 15: Accessing Server-Side Data via AJAX
HOUR 16: Interacting with External Services, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Flickr
PART V: jQuery UI
HOUR 17: Introducing jQuery UI
HOUR 18: Using jQuery UI Effects
HOUR 19: Advanced Interactions Using jQuery UI Interaction Widgets
HOUR 20: Using jQuery UI Widgets to Add Rich Interactions to Web Pages
PART VI: jQuery Mobile HOUR 21: Introducing Mobile Website Development
HOUR 22: Implementing Mobile Web Pages
HOUR 23: Formatting Content in Mobile Pages
HOUR 24: Implementing Mobile Form Elements and Controls
