JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide, Eighth Edition

14. Toolkits, Frameworks, and Libraries

In This Chapter

Adding jQuery 365

Updating a Page with jQuery 368

Interacting with jQuery 369

Interacting and Updating 371

Auto-Completing Fields 374

Here’s what we didn’t tell you earlier: writing JavaScript applications can be difficult. They often require a great deal of knowledge of working with the DOM, CSS, JavaScript, and server resources. Since this is a book for beginning scripters, we’ve shown you how to do some easy things so you can see that learning these techniques is well within your reach. But many books have been written that are completely devoted to showing intermediate-to-advanced scripters how to create JavaScript applications, and our chapters are no substitute for that kind of in-depth ...