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jQuery Mobile

jQuery Mobile

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by Jon Reid
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Release Date: June 2011
ISBN: 9781449309626
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Book Description

This book will provide a practical approach to using jQuery Mobile to quickly develop web-based applications for mobile devices. Even though jQuery Mobile is still in alpha, it is already being used to build the next generation of mobile web applications. It allows developers to use their existing jQuery expertise to quickly create interactive, device-independent applications.

Table of Contents

  1. jQuery Mobile
    1. SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly
    2. A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
    3. Preface
      1. Introduction
        1. What This Book Covers
        2. What You Need To Know
      2. Conventions Used In This Book
      3. Using Code Examples
      4. Safari® Books Online
      5. How to Contact Us
      6. Acknowledgments
    4. 1. Meet jQuery Mobile
      1. Overview of the jQuery Mobile Library
      2. How jQuery Mobile Works
      3. Create Your First jQuery Mobile Application
        1. Under The Hood: the jqmData() Custom Selector
    5. 2. Application Structure and Navigation
      1. Pages
        1. Internal Pages
        2. External Pages
          1. Overriding Asynchronous Page Fetching
        3. Under The Hood: Page Initialization in jQuery Mobile
        4. Page Hide and Show Events
          1. Under The Hood: A jQuery Mobile Page Initialization Pattern
      2. Dialogs
      3. Navigation and History
      4. Transitions
        1. Under The Hood: Animations in a jQuery Mobile Application
    6. 3. Page Elements
      1. Under The Hood: jQuery Plug-ins and Widgets
      2. List Views
        1. Basic List View
          1. List View Buttons
          2. List View Dividers
        2. Advanced List Views
          1. Nested Lists
          2. List View Split Buttons
          3. Thumbnails and Icons
          4. Count Bubbles
        3. Under The Hood: Updating a List View
      3. Toolbars
        1. Navigation Bars
        2. Positioning the Header and Footer
      4. Buttons
        1. Button Control Groups
        2. Button Icons
          1. Custom Icons
      5. Form Elements
        1. Accessing Form Elements with JavaScript
        2. Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
          1. Methods
        3. Flip Toggle
          1. Methods
        4. Input Fields and Textareas
          1. Methods
        5. Search Fields
          1. Methods
        6. Select Menus
          1. Custom Styled Select Menus
            1. Disabled Elements
            2. Multiple Selections
            3. Optgroups
            4. Placeholders
          2. Methods
        7. Sliders
          1. Methods
      6. Layout Grids
    7. Theming jQuery Mobile
      1. Themes and Swatches
        1. Under The Hood: Customizing a Swatch
        2. Theming List View Elements
    8. 5. jQuery Mobile API
      1. jQuery Mobile Methods
        1. changePage
        2. pageLoading
        3. silentScroll
        4. addResolutionBreakpoints
      2. Events
        1. Touch Events
          1. Under The Hood: Using Swipe Events to Trigger Page Transitions
        2. Initialization Events
        3. Page Hide and Show Events
        4. Scroll Events
        5. Orientation Change Events
      3. Responsive Layout API
        1. CSS Selectors
          1. Screen Size Breakpoint Classes
            1. Adding Size Breakpoints
          2. Orientation Change Events
          3. Media Queries
      4. Configuring jQuery Mobile
        1. Available Options
        2. Changing an Option via mobileinit
        3. Under The Hood: Namespacing Data Attributes
    9. 6. jQuery Mobile in Action
      1. Application Pages
      2. Initializing the Application
        1. The initMainPage Method
          1. Under The Hood: Passing Data Between jQuery Mobile Pages
          2. Accessing the Twitter API
            1. JSON or XML?
            2. Fetching the Data
        2. The initSettings Method
        3. The initDetailPage Method
        4. Error Dialog
      3. jqmTweet Take One
      4. Improving the Interface
        1. CSS Tweaks
        2. Interaction Tweaks
      5. Overall Approach
    10. About the Author
    11. Colophon
    12. SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly