September 2011
Beginner to intermediate
536 pages
11h 46m
English
Content preview from Head First jQuery
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Chapter 1. Getting Started with jQuery: Web Page Action
You want more for your web pages. You’ve got HTML and CSS under your belt and want to add scripting to your skill set, but you don’t want to spend your life writing lines and lines of script. You need a scripting library that allows you to change web pages on the fly. And since we’re wishing, can it play well with AJAX and PHP, too? Can it do in 3 lines of code what most client-side languages do in 15? Wishful thinking? No way! You need to meet jQuery.
You want web page power
You already know how to build great-looking web pages with clean, valid HTML and CSS. But static web pages just don’t cut it anymore—people want a responsive web page. They want action, animation, interaction, and lots of cool effects.
Do you want to take control of your web pages and make them more useful for your visitors? Check all the options that apply from the list below:
| Dynamically add elements to the web page without reloading every time. |
Change menu items when users mouse over them. | |
Alert your user when a form field is missing. | |
Add motion ... |
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