The Joy of jQuery · A Beginner's Guide to the World's Most Popular Javascript Library

"Write less, do more"

jQuery is a programming language you can use to create cool web applications. It's free, powerful, relatively easy to set up and learn, and it has extensions and plugins available to do almost anything you could imagine. You can get started quickly, and you won't outgrow it later when you get really good at it. In my humble opinion, jQuery is well worth it the time and effort you put into learning it.

Frankly, it's just plain fun too. That's what inspired me to write this book.

Most programming books are dry and boring, and while you can't get away from all of it, you can inject some humor here and there to keep it light and fun. My first book, The Joy of PHP, is consistently the top-rated book in its category precisely because it made learning PHP fun. I hope this book will do the same for jQuery.

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.

Book Contents Include:

What is jQuery?

Get the Source Code

Getting Started with jQuery

Introduction to HTML

Introduction to CSS

jQuery Selectors

jQuery UI Widgets: Dramatic Page Enhancements

Using jQuery for Form Validation

jQuery AJAX

jQuery Mobile

jQuery Animation