jQuery Essential Training

Teaches how to use jQuery to build web pages that today's users (and clients) are looking for, from complex animation effects to professional user interface controls.In jQuery Essential Training, Microsoft professional Joe Marini presents the power of the jQuery library, an open-source JavaScript project that greatly simplifies the process of adding advanced functionality to web sites. Joe teaches how to use these new features to build pages that work across browsers with the functionality that today's users (and clients) are looking for, from complex animation effects to dynamic page formatting. Joe pulls all of this together, showing how the jQuery UI plug-in can expand and streamline the capability of jQuery, and then integrating jQuery design tools into a complete sample web site. Exercise files accompany the course. Topics include: Constructing jQuery selectors and filters to gather information from web pages Creating, inserting, and manipulating web page content Understanding jQuery statement chaining Building event handlers that work across browsers Working with jQuery effects, such as showing, hiding, and fading page elements Creating custom animations with specialized properties and options Using the jQuery UI plug-in to give pages a polished look