Learning JQuery

jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that can enhance your websites
regardless of your background. In this book, creators of the popular
jQuery learning resource, learningquery.com, share their knowledge,
experience, and enthusiasm about jQuery to help you get the most from
the library and to make your web applications shine. For designers,
jQuery leverages existing CSS and HTML skills, allowing you to
dynamically find and change any aspect of a page. This book provides a
gentle introduction to jQuery concepts, allowing you to add interactions
and animations to your pages-even if previous attempts at writing
JavaScript have left you baffled. For programmers, jQuery offers an open
-source, standards-compliant, unobtrusive approach to writing complex
JavaScript applications. This book will guide you past the pitfalls
associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language
features, as well as provide you with a reference to the jQuery library
to return to again and again. This book begins with a tutorial to
jQuery, followed by an examination of common, real-world client-side
problems, and solutions for each of them.A detailed reference rounds off
the book, making it an invaluable resource for answers to all your
jQuery questions. Who this book is written for This book is for web
designers who want to create interactive elements for their designs, and
for developers who want to create the best user interface for their web
applications. The reader will need the basics of HTML and CSS, and
should be comfortable with the syntax of JavaScript. No knowledge of
jQuery is assumed, nor is experience with any other JavaScript libraries
required.