Bintu Harwani - jQuery Recipes: Find Ready-Made Solutions to All Your jQuery Problems

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jQuery is a rich bundle of JavaScript libraries that helps users apply dynamic functionality to web pages with great ease. jQuery provides several powerful features, including the ability to access a part of a web page, modify content on fly, add animation, apply AJAX, and more.

This book uses a problem-solution approach to understanding the wide features provided by this open source project. Youll begin by using selectors to apply effects to paragraphs and lists. Youll learn how to set the layouts of a web page. After that, you will explore techniques involving event handling and performing validations to different form elements. Applying visual effects, navigations, AJAX, and many more facets of jQuery will also explained in the form of recipes. The coding used in the recipes is completely explained with screen shots at each step. If you know a bit of HTML, CSS, and jQuery, then this is the book is for you, because it covers most of the problems a person faces when working with jQuery.

This book is suitable for web developers, professionals, trainers, students, and professionals who are looking for quick solutions to problems that are usually encountered while applying features to web pages.

You can access all of the source code used in this book by clicking the Download Source Code button located at www.apress.com/9781484273036 .

I am very grateful to Louise Corrigan, the Acquisitions Editor at Apress, for believing in me and giving me an opportunity to write the second edition of jQuery Recipes. I am also thankful to the whole team at Apress for their constant cooperation and contributions.

I offer my gratitude to Kenneth Fukizi who, as the Technical Reviewer, offered a significant amount of feedback that helped to improve the chapters. She did a first-class job at structural and language editing, and played a vital role in improving the structure and quality of information. I appreciate her efforts in enhancing the contents of the book and giving it a polished look.

I also thank Nirmal Selvaraj, the project manager of the book, for his constant support.

A great big thank you to Mark Powers, the Editorial Operations Manager, and the editorial and production staff and the entire team at Apress who worked tirelessly to produce this book. Really, I enjoyed working with each of you.