Developer''s Library

This hands-on guide gets straight to the essence of what’s useful in jQuery and JavaScript, and what you need to know to build new web solutions or migrate existing sites to jQuery.

jQuery & JavaScript Phrasebook presents carefully tested, flexible, adaptable code — all organized for quick lookup and easy use. Coverage ranges from the basics to advanced jQuery capabilities, including jQueryUI widgets and mobile development. Coverage includes:

• Basics, including selecting and manipulating HTML elements with jQuery Selector
• Dynamically manipulating CSS values
• Handling browser and DOM events
• Performing validation
• Server communication
• REST, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, and JSON/XML data
• Positioning web page elements and making them interactive
• Using animation and other special effects