Ebook: Learning jQuery: better interaction, design, and web development with simple JavaScript techniques

Step through each of the core concepts of the jQuery library, building an overall picture of its capabilities. Once you have thoroughly covered the basics, the book returns to each concept to cover more advanced examples and techniques.This book is for web designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web applications. Basic JavaScript programming and knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. No knowledge of jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries.;Preface; _GoBack; OLE_LINK2; Getting Started; What jQuery does; Why jQuery works well; Making our first jQuery-powered web page; Downloading jQuery; Deciding on the version of jQuery to use; Setting up jQuery in an HTML document; Adding our jQuery code; Finding the poem text; Injecting the new class; Executing the code; The finished product; Plain JavaScript versus jQuery; Using development tools; Chrome Developer Tools; Summary; Selecting Elements; Understanding the DOM; _GoBack; Using the () function; CSS selectors; OLE_LINK20; OLE_LINK21; Styling list-item levels; OLE_LINK1; OLE_LINK2