Ebook: jQuery Succinctly

Morrisville, Syncfusion Inc, 2012, — 101 p.
jQuery Succinctly was written to express, in short-order, the concepts essential to intermediate
and advanced jQuery development. Its purpose is to instill in you, the reader, practices that
jQuery developers take as common knowledge. Each chapter contains concepts essential to
becoming a seasoned jQuery developer.
This book is intended for three types of readers. The first is someone who has read introductory
material on jQuery and is looking for the next logical step. The second type of reader is a
JavaScript developer, already versed in another library, now trying to quickly learn jQuery. The
third reader is I, the author. I crafted this book to be used as my own personal reference point
for jQuery concepts. This is exactly the type of book I wish every JavaScript library had
available.Contents:
The Story behind the Succinctly Series of Books
About the Author
Introduction
Preface
jQuery semantics
How the book is structured
More code, less words
Why oh why did I use alert() for code examples?
Color coding
Completely grok jQuery text() before reading this book
Code examples
Chapter 1 Core jQuery
Base concept behind jQuery
The concept, behind the concept, behind jQuery
jQuery requires HTML to run in standards mode or almost-standards mode
Waiting on the DOM to be ready
Executing jQuery code when the browser window is completely loaded
Include all CSS files before including jQuery
Using a hosted version of jQuery
Executing jQuery code when DOM is parsed without using ready()
Grokking jQuery chaining
Breaking the chain with destructive methods
Using destructive jQuery methods and exiting destruction using end()
Aspects of the jQuery function
Grokking when the keyword this refers to DOM elements
Extracting elements from a wrapper set, using them directly without jQuery
Checking to see if the wrapper set is empty
Creating an alias by renaming the jQuery object itself
Using .each() when implicit iteration is not enough
Elements in jQuery wrapper set returned in document order
Determining context used by the jQuery function
Creating entire DOM structure, including DOM events, in a single chain