Learning jQuery 1.3 -- Table of Contents -- Learning jQuery 1.3 -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who is this book for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- What jQuery does -- Why jQuery works well -- History of the jQuery project -- Our first jQuery-powered web page -- Downloading jQuery -- Setting up the HTML document -- Adding jQuery -- Finding the poem text -- Injecting the new class -- Executing the code -- The finished product -- Summary -- 2. Selectors -- The Document Object Model -- The () factory function -- CSS selectors -- Styling list-item levels -- Attribute selectors -- Styling links -- Custom selectors -- Styling alternate rows -- Form selectors -- DOM traversal methods -- Styling specific cells -- Chaining -- Accessing DOM elements -- Summary -- 3. Events -- Performing tasks on page load -- Timing of code execution -- Multiple scripts on one page -- Shortcuts for code brevity -- Coexisting with other libraries -- Simple events -- A simple style switcher -- Enabling the other buttons -- Event handler context -- Further consolidation -- Shorthand events -- Compound events -- Showing and hiding advanced features -- Highlighting clickable items -- The journey of an event -- Side effects of event bubbling -- Altering the journey: the event object -- Event targets -- Stopping event propagation -- Default actions -- Event delegation -- Removing an event handler -- Event namespacing -- Rebinding events -- Simulating user interaction -- Keyboard events -- Summary -- 4. Effects -- Inline CSS modification -- Basic hide and show -- Effects and speed -- Speeding in -- Fading in and fading out -- Compound effects.

Creating custom animations -- Toggling the fade -- Animating multiple properties -- Positioning with CSS -- Simultaneous versus queued effects -- Working with a single set of elements -- Working with multiple sets of elements -- Callbacks -- In a nutshell -- Summary -- 5. DOM Manipulation -- Manipulating attributes -- Non-class attributes -- The () factory function revisited -- Inserting new elements -- Moving elements -- Marking, numbering, and linking the context -- Appending footnotes -- Wrapping elements -- Copying elements -- Clone with events -- Cloning for pull quotes -- A CSS diversion -- Back to the code -- Prettifying the pull quotes -- DOM manipulation methods in a nutshell -- Summary -- 6. AJAX -- Loading data on demand -- Appending HTML -- Working with JavaScript objects -- Retrieving a JavaScript object -- Global jQuery functions -- Executing a script -- Loading an XML document -- Choosing a data format -- Passing data to the server -- Performing a GET request -- Performing a POST request -- Serializing a form -- Keeping an eye on the request -- AJAX and events -- Security limitations -- Using JSONP for remote data -- Additional options -- The low-level AJAX method -- Modifying default options -- Loading parts of an HTML page -- Summary -- 7. Table Manipulation -- Sorting and paging -- Server-side sorting -- Preventing page refreshes -- JavaScript sorting -- Row grouping tags -- Basic alphabetical sorting -- Using JavaScript to sort arrays -- Using a comparator to sort table rows -- The power of plugins -- Performance concerns -- Finessing the sort keys -- Sorting other types of data -- Column highlighting -- Alternating sort directions -- Server-side pagination -- Sorting and paging go together -- JavaScript pagination -- Displaying the pager -- Enabling the pager buttons -- Marking the current page -- Paging with sorting.

The finished code -- Modifying table appearance -- Row highlighting -- Row striping -- Advanced row striping -- Interactive row highlighting -- Tooltips -- Collapsing and expanding sections -- Filtering -- Filter options -- Collecting filter options from content -- Reversing the filters -- Interacting with other code -- Row striping -- Expanding and collapsing -- The finished code -- Summary -- 8. Forms with Function -- Improving a basic form -- Progressively enhanced form styling -- The legend -- Required field messages -- A regular expression digression -- Inserting the field-message legend -- Conditionally displayed fields -- Form validation -- Required fields -- Required formats -- A final check -- Checkbox manipulation -- The finished code -- Compact forms -- Placeholder text for fields -- AJAX auto-completion -- On the server -- In the browser -- Populating the search field -- Keyboard navigation -- Handling the arrow keys -- Inserting suggestions in the field -- Removing the suggestion list -- Auto-completion versus live search -- The finished code -- Working with numeric form data -- Shopping cart table structure -- Rejecting non-numeric input -- Numeric calculations -- Parsing and formatting currency -- Dealing with decimal places -- Other calculations -- Rounding values -- Finishing touches -- Deleting items -- Editing shipping information -- The finished code -- Summary -- 9. Shufflers and Rotators -- Headline rotator -- Setting up the page -- Retrieving the feed -- Setting up the rotator -- The headline rotate function -- Pause on hover -- Retrieving a feed from a different domain -- Adding a loading indicator -- Gradient fade effect -- The finished code -- An image carousel -- Setting up the page -- Revising the styles with JavaScript -- Shuffling images when clicked -- Adding sliding animation -- Displaying action icons.

Image enlargement -- Hiding the enlarged cover -- Displaying a close button -- More fun with badging -- Animating the cover enlargement -- Deferring animations until image loads -- Adding a loading indicator -- The finished code -- Summary -- 10. Using Plugins -- Finding plugins and help -- How to use a plugin -- The Form plugin -- Tips and tricks -- The jQuery UI plugin library -- Effects -- Color animations -- Class animations -- Advanced easing -- Additional effects -- Interaction components -- Widgets -- jQuery UI ThemeRoller -- Other recommended plugins -- Forms -- Autocomplete -- Validation -- Jeditable -- Masked input -- Tables -- Tablesorter -- jqGrid -- Flexigrid -- Images -- Jcrop -- Magnify -- Lightboxes and Modal Dialogs -- FancyBox -- Thickbox -- BlockUI -- jqModal -- Charting -- Flot -- Sparklines -- Events -- hoverIntent -- Live query -- Summary -- 11. Developing plugins -- Adding new global functions -- Adding multiple functions -- What's the point? -- Creating a utility method -- Adding jQuery Object Methods -- Object Method context -- Method chaining -- DOM traversal methods -- Adding new shortcut methods -- Method parameters -- Simple parameters -- Parameter maps -- Default parameter values -- Callback functions -- Customizable defaults -- Adding a selector expression -- Sharing a plugin with the world -- Naming conventions -- Use of the alias -- Method interfaces -- Documentation style -- Summary -- A. Online Resources -- jQuery documentation -- jQuery wiki -- jQuery API -- jQuery API browser -- Visual jQuery -- Adobe AIR jQueryAPI viewer -- JavaScript reference -- Mozilla developer center -- Dev.opera -- MSDN JScript Reference -- Quirksmode -- JavaScript Toolbox -- JavaScript code compressors -- YUI Compressor -- JSMin -- Pretty printer -- (X)HTML reference -- W3C hypertext markup language home page -- CSS reference.

W3C cascading style sheets home page -- Mezzoblue CSS cribsheet -- Position is everything -- Useful blogs -- The jQuery blog -- Learning jQuery -- Ajaxian -- John Resig -- JavaScript ant -- Robert's talk -- Web standards with imagination -- Snook -- Matt Snider JavaScript resource -- I can't -- DOM scripting -- As days pass by -- A list apart -- Web development frameworks using jQuery -- B. Development Tools -- Tools for Firefox -- Firebug -- Web developer toolbar -- Venkman -- Regular expressions tester -- Tools for Internet Explorer -- Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar -- Microsoft Visual Web Developer -- DebugBar -- Drip -- Tools for Safari -- Develop Menu -- Web Inspector -- Tools for Opera -- Dragonfly -- Other tools -- Firebug Lite -- NitobiBug -- TextMate jQuery bundle -- Charles -- Fiddler -- Aptana -- C. JavaScript Closures -- Inner functions -- The great escape -- Variable scoping -- Interactions between closures -- Closures in jQuery -- Arguments to (document).ready() -- Event handlers -- Memory leak hazards -- Accidental reference loops -- The Internet Explorer memory leak problem -- The good news -- Summary -- D. Quick Reference -- Selector expressions -- DOM traversal methods -- Event methods -- Effect methods -- DOM manipulation methods -- AJAX methods -- Miscellaneous methods -- Index.