jQuery: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition - New Kicks and Tricks

by Craig Sharkie

jQuery: Novice to Ninja is your fast track to mastering jQuery—the all-conquering JavaScript framework. Used by over half the world’s top 10,000 websites, jQuery is the fastest, most efficient way to add killer functionality to your site.

In the second edition of this practical and fun-to-read book, you’ll learn the fundamentals of jQuery, adding interactivity and animation to your websites. You’ll then move on to more sophisticated techniques, including using plugins, UI widgets, and the brand new jQuery Mobile framework.

• Effortlessly control any page element with powerful jQuery selectors
• Construct impressive animations with just a few lines of code
• Tap the power of jQuery UI to create complex menus, tooltips, and panels
• Add intelligent interactive forms and elegant drop-down menus
• Build a complete working application, StarTrackr!, as you learn
• NEW! Use jQuery Mobile to create compelling mobile apps

And much more

480 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 3, 2012

Reviews

[Robert Muller · Rating 5 out of 5]

The explanations in this book on JQuery are much clearer than any other that I've read. This is probably the second book you would read after completing a tutorial like Head First JQuery, and you'll really understand what's going on. The "excerpt" approach to examples doesn't really work for me, though it does pinpoint the issues the authors want to bring out, so working with the code examples is really essential to get a complete grasp of what's going on with JQuery. The plugin recommendations are very nice, too.