Web Development with jQuery - Softcover

York, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111886607X ISBN 13: 9781118866078

Publisher: Wrox, 2015

Synopsis

Newly revised and updated resource on jQuery's many features and advantages

Web Development with jQuery offers a major update to the popular Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery from 2009. More than half of the content is new or updated, and reflects recent innovations with regard to mobile applications, jQuery mobile, and the spectrum of associated plugins.

Readers can expect thorough revisions with expanded coverage of events, CSS, AJAX, animation, and drag and drop. New chapters bring developers up to date on popular features like jQuery UI, navigation, tables, interactive capabilities, and audio and video. The book focuses on the new features of jQuery that improve performance and speed, providing huge advantages over traditional JavaScript.

• Offers new and revised content throughout the book, which focuses on the most recent features and capabilities of jQuery
• Serves as an essential instructional tool for web developers with JavaScript and CSS knowledge who want to learn more
• Advises readers on how to best use jQuery's powerful, easy-to-use features to create dynamic web pages and web applications

This resource provides a deep understanding of jQuery and sets readers up for successful interactions with all it has to offer.

About this title

About the Author

About the author

Richard York has written four previous Wrox books, including Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery.

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From the Back Cover

Take full advantage of jQuery's newest features for web development

In the five years since Wrox's popular Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery was published, jQuery has undergone major revisions and enhancements. All are explored and explained in this new guide, which thoroughly covers new HTML5 elements and functionality, improved methods of event handling, the upgrades to jQuery UI, and much more. Each chapter helps you learn to develop dynamic web pages and web applications with jQuery's powerful, easy-to-use features. This book is an essential instructional tool for web developers who know JavaScript and CSS and want to learn more.

Web Development with jQuery:

• Focuses on the most recent features and capabilities of jQuery
• Reviews and explains the updates to popular features like jQuery UI, navigation, tables, interactive capabilities, audio, and video
• Includes expanded coverage of events, CSS, AJAX, animation, and drag and drop
• Demonstrates how to take advantage of new jQuery features that improve performance and speed
• Covers a variety of third-party jQuery plugins that can add more versatility to your web pages

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

From the Inside Flap

Take full advantage of jQuery's newest features for web development

In the five years since Wrox's popular Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with jQuery was published, jQuery has undergone major revisions and enhancements. All are explored and explained in this new guide, which thoroughly covers new HTML5 elements and functionality, improved methods of event handling, the upgrades to jQuery UI, and much more. Each chapter helps you learn to develop dynamic web pages and web applications with jQuery's powerful, easy-to-use features. This book is an essential instructional tool for web developers who know JavaScript and CSS and want to learn more.

Web Development with jQuery:

• Focuses on the most recent features and capabilities of jQuery
• Reviews and explains the updates to popular features like jQuery UI, navigation, tables, interactive capabilities, audio, and video
• Includes expanded coverage of events, CSS, AJAX, animation, and drag and drop
• Demonstrates how to take advantage of new jQuery features that improve performance and speed
• Covers a variety of third-party jQuery plugins that can add more versatility to your web pages

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wrox
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111886607X
• ISBN 13: 9781118866078
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 668