Learning From jQuery by Macrae, Callum -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Learning from jQuery Preface

Who This Book Is For Who This Book Isn’t For Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Event Handling

Listening for Events

Events in jQuery Events in JavaScript Events in Internet Explorer 8 Writing a Wrapper Function Adding Event Handlers to Multiple Elements

Event Propagation

Internet Explorer’s .attachEvent

Triggering Events

Triggering Events in Internet Explorer 8 Writing a Wrapper Function to Trigger Events

Removing Event Handlers

Removing Event Handlers in Internet Explorer 8 Writing a Wrapper Function to Remove Events

Adding a “Once Only” Event Listener Summary

2. Constructors and Prototypes

Constructors

Method Chaining Constructor, Not Function

Prototypes

.hasOwnProperty Editing the Prototype of Existing Objects

Summary

3. DOM Traversal and Manipulation

Selecting an Element

Selecting Elements with a CSS Selector

Selecting Children Selecting the Next Element Creating an Element Modifying an Existing Element Cycling Through Elements Moving and Copying Elements Summary

4. AJAX

Sending an AJAX Request Debugging

Debugging Sent AJAX Requests

Sending POST Requests in JavaScript Writing a Wrapper Function A Simple Application of AJAX Designing a Site with AJAX Summary

5. JavaScript Conventions

Writing JavaScript

Comments Coding Standards

Whitespace Curly braces Naming conventions

Literals Notation

Object Literals Other Literals

Optimizations

Algorithms Caching Variables parseInt Loops Minimize Repeated Expressions

Functions

Declarations Versus Expressions Function Callbacks If Invoking Self-Defining Functions

Code Reuse Common Antipatterns

Using eval with document.write

Common Design Patterns

The Singleton Pattern The Factory Pattern The Iterator Pattern The Facade Pattern

Summary

A. JavaScript Basics

Hello World! Comments Variables Numbers

The Assignment Operators

Functions

Hoisting Example Functions as Arguments Returning a Value

Objects Finding the Type of a Variable Arrays

Detecting an Array

Looping

The for Loop The while Loop The do-while Loop The break and continue Statements for..in statements

Conditional Statements

The if Statement Comparison Operators Logical Operators

Falsy values

The switch Statement

Delays Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions in String Functions

Error Handling Summary

B. JavaScript Resources

A Good IDE GitHub JSHint JSPerf Mozilla Developer Network Pastebins

Gist JSFiddle

Version Control Software

About the Author Colophon Copyright

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