JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide, Eighth Edition

16. Building on jQuery

In This Chapter

Using jQuery as a Foundation 398

Using ThemeRoller to Customize Your Look 400

Adding a Calendar to Your Page 403

Dragging and Dropping Elements 408

Using jQuery with External Data 411

Using jQuery Plugins 420

In the last couple of chapters, you’ve seen how the jQuery library can be used to add complex functions to Web sites with a minimum of coding, and in ways that leverage your existing knowledge of HTML and CSS. It’s usually easier to add JavaScript functions to your sites with jQuery than to code them individually.

The previous chapter covered jQuery’s user interface toolkit, which allows you to easily add the features, such as menus, buttons, dialogs, and progress bars, that Mac OS X and Windows users ...