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jQuery
New Wave JavaScript
Ajax Experience - Oct 2006

  John Resig (ejohn.org)
What is jQuery?


• An open source JavaScript library that
  simplifies the interaction between HTML
  and JavaScript.
Why jQuery?
• Fully documented
• Great community
• Tons of plugins
• Small size (15kb)
• Everything works in IE 5.5+, Firefox, Safari
  1.3+, and Opera 8+
Complete Focus:


• Find some elements
• Do something with them
Find Some Elements...

• Full CSS 1-3 Support
• Basic XPath
• Better CSS support than most browsers
$(“div”)
<div id=”body”>
  <h2>Some Header</h2>
  <div class=”contents”>
      <p>...</p>
      <p>...</p>
  </div>
</div>
$(“#body”)
<div id=”body”>
  <h2>Some Header</h2>
  <div class=”contents”>
      <p>...</p>
      <p>...</p>
  </div>
</div>
$(“div#body”)
<div id=”body”>
  <h2>Some Header</h2>
  <div class=”contents”>
      <p>...</p>
      <p>...</p>
  </div>
</div>
$(“div.contents p”)
  <div id=”body”>
    <h2>Some Header</h2>
    <div class=”contents”>
        <p>...</p>
        <p>...</p>
    </div>
  </div>
$(“div > div”)
<div id=”body”>
  <h2>Some Header</h2>
  <div class=”contents”>
      <p>...</p>
      <p>...</p>
  </div>
</div>
$(“div[div]”)
<div id=”body”>
  <h2>Some Header</h2>
  <div class=”contents”>
      <p>...</p>
      <p>...</p>
  </div>
</div>
Features

• Events (click, hover, toggle)
• DOM Manipulation (append, prepend, remove)
• Effects (hide, show, slideDown, fadeOut)
• AJAX (load, get, post)
Events


• $(“form input:last”).click(function(){
    $(“#menu”).slideDown(“slow”);
  });
DOM Manipulation

• $(“a[@target]”)
        .append(“ (Opens in New Window)”);
• $(“#body”).css({
        border: “1px solid green”,
        height: “40px”
  });
Effects

• $(“#menu”).slideDown(“slow”);
• $(“div”).hide(500,function(){
        $(this).show(500);
  });
AJAX


• $(“#body”).load(“sample.html”);
• $.getScript(“test.js”);
Chaining

• $(“div”).hide();
• $(“div”).hide().color(”blue”);
• $(“div”).hide().color(”blue”).slideDown();
Live Demos
Accordion Menu
Hover Menu
Todo List
Plugins

• Drag and Drop
• Sortables
• Tabbed Navigation
• Sortable Tables
• And over 80 more...
Community

• Very active mailing list
 • 90+ Posts/Day
 • 640+ Members
• Technorati: 10+ blog posts per day
Who uses jQuery?

• MSNBC
• Technorati
• Feedburner
• Drupal
• many others...
Future

• Internationalization
• Plugin Community (think Sourceforge)
• Fixing “Hard” Problems
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Introduction to jQuery (Ajax Exp 2006)