About the Book

jQuery in Action, Third Edition, is a fast-paced guide to jQuery, focused on the tasks you’ll face in nearly any web dev project. In it, you’ll learn how to traverse the DOM, handle events, perform animations, write jQuery plugins, perform Ajax requests and even unit test your code. Its unique Lab Pages anchor each concept in real-world code. This expanded Third Edition adds new chapters that teach you how to interact with other tools and frameworks and build modern single-page web applications.

·Starting with jQuery
·Core jQuery
·Advanced Topics

About the Author

Bear Bibeault is coauthor of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Ajax in Practice andPrototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Yehuda Katzis an early contributor to jQuery and co-creator of Ember.js. Aurelio De Rosais a full-stack web developer who contributes to various open source projects and a member of the jQuery content team.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Starting with jQuery 1 Introducing jQuery 1.1 Write less, do more 1.2 Unobtrusive JavaScript 1.3 Installing jQuery 1.4 How jQuery is structured 1.5 jQuery fundamentals 1.6 Summary Part 2 Core jQuery 2 Selecting elements 2.1 Selecting elements for manipulation 2.2 Basic selectors 2.3 Retrieving elements by their hierarchy 2.4 Selecting elements using attributes 2.5 Introducing filters 2.6 Enhancing performances using context 2.7 Testing your skills with some exercises 2.8 Summary 3 Operating on a jQuery collection 3.1 Generating new HTML 3.2 Managing the jQuery collection 3.3 Summary 4 Working with properties, attributes and data 4.1 Defining element properties and attributes 4.2 Working with attributes 4.3 Manipulating element properties 4.4 Storing custom data on elements 4.5 Summary 5 Bringing pages to life with jQuery 5.1 Changing element styling 5.2 Setting element content 5.3 Dealing with form element values 5.4 Summary 6 Events are where it happens! 6.1 Understanding the browser event models 6.2 The jQuery Event Model 6.3 Summary 7 Demo: DVD discs locator 7.1 Putting events (and more) to work 7.2 Summary 8 Energizing pages with animations and effects 8.1 Showing and hiding elements 8.2 Animating the display state of elements 8.3 Adding more easing functions to jQuery 8.4 Creating custom animations 8.5 Animations and queuing 8.6 Summary 9 Beyond the DOM with jQuery utility functions 9.1 Using the jQuery properties 9.2 Using other libraries with jQuery 9.3 Manipulating JavaScript objects and collections 9.4 Miscellaneous utility functions 9.5 Summary 10 Talk to the server with Ajax 10.1 Brushing up on Ajax 10.2 Loading content into elements 10.3 Making GET and POST requests 10.4 Taking full control of an Ajax request 10.5 Summary 11 Demo: an Ajax-powered contact form 11.1 The features of the project 11.2 Creating the markup 11.3 Implementing the PHP backend 11.4 Field validation using Ajax 11.5 Even more fun with Ajax 11.6 Improving the user experience using effects 11.7 A note on accessibility 11.8 Summary Part 3 Advanced Topics 12 When jQuery is not enough...plugins to the rescue! 12.1 Why extend jQuery? 12.2 Where to find plugins 12.3 The jQuery plugin authoring guidelines 12.4 Demo: creating a slideshow as a jQuery plugin 12.5 Writing custom utility functions 12.6 Summary 13 Avoiding the callback hell with Deferred 13.1 Introduction to promises 13.2 The Deferred and Promise objects 13.3 The Deferred methods 13.4 Promisifying all the things 13.5 Summary 14 Unit testing with QUnit 14.1 Why is testing important? 14.2 Getting started with QUnit 14.3 Creating tests for synchronous code 14.4 Testing your code using assertions 14.5 How to test asynchronous tasks 14.6 noglobals and notrycatch 14.7 Group your tests in modules 14.8 Configuring QUnit 14.9 An example test suite 14.10 Summary 15 How jQuery fits into large projects 15.1 Improving the performance of your selectors 15.2 Organizing your code into modules 15.3 Loading modules with RequireJS 15.4 Managing dependencies with Bower 15.5 Creating single-page applications with Backbone.js 15.6 Summary 15.7 The end Appendix JavaScript that you need to know but might not! Index