Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery -- About the Author -- Credits -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Part I: jQuery API -- Chapter 1: Introduction to jQuery -- What Does jQuery Do for Me? -- Who Develops jQuery? -- Obtaining jQuery -- Installing jQuery -- Programming Conventions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Selecting and Filtering -- The Origin of the Selectors API -- Using the Selectors API -- Filtering a Selection -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 3: Events -- Assigning an Event with the Traditional Event Model -- Assigning Events with the W3C Event Model -- The Microsoft JScript Event Model -- Creating a Universal Event API -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Manipulating Content and Attributes -- Setting and Accessing Attributes -- Manipulating Class Names -- Manipulating HTML and Text Content -- Replacing Elements -- Removing Content -- Cloning Content -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Arrays and Iteration -- Basic Iteration -- Filtering Selections and Arrays -- Mapping a Selection or an Array -- Array Utility Methods -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: CSS -- The css() Method -- The outerWidth() and outerHeight() Methods -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: AJAX -- Making a Server Request -- Loading HTML Snippets from the Server -- Dynamically Loading JavaScript -- AJAX Events -- Making an AJAX-Style File Upload -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 8: Effects -- Showing and Hiding Elements -- Sliding Elements -- Fading Elements -- Custom Animation -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 9: Plugins -- Writing a Plugin -- Good Practice for jQuery Plugin Development -- Summary -- Exercises -- Part II: jQuery UI -- Chapter 10: Implementing Drag-and-Drop.

Making Elements Draggable -- Making Elements Draggable with Ghosting -- Dragging between Windows in Safari -- Delegating Drop Zones for Dragged Elements -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 11: Drag-and-Drop Sorting -- Making a List Sortable -- Customizing Sortables -- Saving the State of Sorted Lists -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 12: Selection by Drawing a Box -- Introducing the Selectables Plugin -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 13: Accordion UI -- Building an Accordion UI -- Setting Auto-Height -- Changing the Default Pane -- Toggling the alwaysOpen Option -- Changing the Accordion Event -- Filling the Height of the Parent Element -- Setting the Header Elements -- Styling Selected Panes -- Selecting a Content Pane by Location -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 14: Datepicker -- Implementing a Datepicker -- Localizing the Datepicker -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 15: Dialogs -- Implementing a Dialog -- Examining a Dialog's Markup -- Making a Modal Dialog -- Auto-Opening the Dialog -- Controlling Dynamic Interaction -- Animating the Dialog -- Working with Dialog Events -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 16: Tabs -- Implementing Tabs -- Loading Remote Content via AJAX -- Animating Tab Transitions -- Summary -- What Next? -- Exercises -- Appendix A: Answers to Exercises -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Appendix B: Selectors Supported by jQuery -- Appendix C: Selecting and Filtering -- Appendix D: Events -- Event Object Normalization -- Appendix E: Manipulating Attributes and Data Caching -- Appendix F: Manipulating Content -- Appendix G: AJAX Methods -- Appendix H: CSS -- Appendix I: Utilities -- Appendix J: Draggables and Droppables -- Appendix K: Sortables.

Appendix L: Selectables -- Notes -- Appendix M: Effects -- Speed -- Callback Function -- Appendix N: Accordion -- Appendix O: Datepicker -- Appendix P: Dialog -- Appendix Q: Tabs -- Appendix R: Re-Sizables -- Appendix S: Sliders -- Index.