Contributors

Preface

1. jQuery Basics

1.1 Including the jQuery Library Code in an HTML Page

1.2 Executing jQuery/javaScript Coded After the DOM Has Loaded but Before Complete Page Load

1.3 Selecting DOM Elements Using Selectors and the jQuery Function

1.4 Selecting DOM Elements Within a Specified Context

1.5 Filtering a Wrapper Set of DOM Elements

1.6 Finding Descendant Elements Within the Currently Selected Wrapper Set

1.7 Returning to the Prior Selection Before a Destructive Change

1.8 Including the Previous Selection with the Current Selection

1.9 Traversing the DOM Based on Your Current Context to Acquire a New Set of DOM Elements

1.10 Creating, Operating on, and Inserting DOM Elements

1.11 Removing DOM Elements

1.12 Replacing DOM Elements

1.13 Cloning DOM Elements

1.14 Getting, Setting, and Removing DOM Element Attributes

1.15 Getting and Setting HTML Content

1.16 Getting and Setting Text Content

1.17 Using the $ Alias Without Creating Global Conflicts

2. Selecting Elements withjQuery

2.1 Selecting Child Elements Only

2.2 Selecting Specific Siblings

2.3 Selecting Elements by Index Order

2.4 Selecting Elements That Are Currently Animating

2.5 Selecting Elements Based on What They Contain

2.6 Selecting Elements by What They Don't Match

2.7 Selecting Elements Based on Their Visibility

2.8 Selecting Elements Based on Attributes

2.9 Selecting Form Elements by Type

2.10 Selecting an Element with Specific Characteristics

2.11 Using the Context Parameter

2.12 Creating a Custom Filter Selector

3. Beyond the Basics

3.1 Looping Through a Set of Selected Results

3.2 Reducing the Selection Set to a Specified Item

3.3 Convert a Selected jQuery Object into a Raw DOM Object

3.4 Getting the Index of an Item in a Selection

3.5 Making a Unique Array of Values from an Existing Array

3.6 Performing an Action on a Subset of the Selected Set

3.7 Configuring jQuery Not to Conflict with Other Libraries

3.8 Adding Functionality with Plugins

3.9 Determining the Exact Query That Was Used

4. jQue Utilities

4.1 Detecting Features with jQuery.support

4.2 Iterating Over Arrays and Objects with jQuery.each

4.3 Filtering Arrays with jQuery.grep

4.4 Iterating and Modifying Array Entries with jQuery.map

4.5 Combining Two Arrays with jQuery.merge

4.6 Filtering Out Duplicate Array Entries with jQuery.unique

4.7 Testing Callback Functions with jQuery.isFunction

4.8 Removing Whitespace from Strings or Form Values with jQuery.trim

4.9 Attaching Objects and Data to DOM with jQuery.data

4.10 Extending Objects with jQuery.extend

5. Faster, Simpler, More Fun

5.1 That's Not jQuery, It's Javascript!

5.2 What's Wrong with $(this)?

5.3 Removing Redundant Repetition

5.4 Formatting Your jQuery Chains

5.5 Borrowing Code from Other Libraries

5.6 Writing a Custom Iterator

5.7 Toggling an Attribute

5.8 Finding the Bottlenecks

5.9 Caching Your jQuery Objects

5.10 Writing Faster Selectors

5.11 Loading Tables Faster

5.12 Coding Bare-Metal Loops

5.13 Reducing Name Lookups

5.14 Updating the DOM Faster with .innerHTML

5.15 Debugging? Break Those Chains

5.16 Is It ajQuery Bug?

5.17 Tracing into jQuery

5.18 Making Fewer Server Requests

5.19 Writing Unobtrusive JavaScript

5.20 Using jQuery for Progressive Enhancement

5.21 Making Your Pages Accessible

6. Dimensions

7. Effects

8. Events

9. Advanced Events

10. HTML Form Enhancements from Scratch

11. HTML Form Enhancements with Plugins

12. jQuery Plugins

13. Interface Components from Scratch

14. User Interfaces with jQuery UI

15. jQuer Ui Theming

16. JQuery ajax Data Formats HTML XML JSON JSONP

17. Using jQuery in Large Projects

18. Unit Testing

Index