jQuery in Action, Third Edition

Chapter 11. Demo: an Ajax-powered contact form

This chapter covers

• Effects with jQuery
• jQuery’s utility functions
• Making Ajax requests
• Creating an accessible form

In the previous chapter we covered even more topics that belong to jQuery’s core. In between the discussion of the methods, utility functions, and flags, we showed you a lot of snippets of code, demos, and lab pages. All these examples should have given you more confidence with the arguments treated.

In chapter 7, we developed a demo to show you the power of jQuery in a real-world example. It employed many of the methods and techniques you had learned up to that point in the book. Then we introduced you to more advanced topics like effects and animations, utility functions, ...