2. Working with Events
The bread and butter of jQuery is its ability to interact with all kinds of browser and physical events, including mouse movement, form interaction, and keyboard events. You can take control of these events using jQuery to provide your Web-site visitors with a much richer interactive experience.
By binding events such as a mouse click or a keypress to text, links, images, and other DOM elements, you can call into action myriad functions from animation to AJAX. Functions can be combined to create complex chain reactions, a very cool thing.
In this chapter I’ll show you how to gain control over many of these events while creating a fictional Web site called Photographer’s Exchange. You will combine the events to create effects ...
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