jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide

Bring your websites to life with animations using jQuery

Key Features

• Get going with jQuery's animation methods and build a toolkit of ready-to-use animations using jQuery 2.0
• Over 50 detailed examples on different types of web page animations
• Create both simple and complex animations using clear, step-by-step instructions, accompanied with screenshots

Book Description

What you will learn

• Create custom animations using jQuery s animate() method
• Fade, hide, shrink, and slide your animations using jQuery s built-in animation helper methods
• Implement subtle UI effects, user-triggered animations and full-page feature animations to animate the user interface of your web applications
• Make your background images come to life with movement and animation
• Create an automatic slider animation with just a few lines of code
• Discover parallax animations and how they can be used in your web projects
• Simulate animation in a variety of ways using other non-animation-specific jQuery methods
• Get your images scrolling in a certain direction, and at a certain speed, depending on the movements of the mouse pointer

Who this book is for

If you are a web designer or a frontend developer or if you want to learn how to animate the user interface of your web applications with jQuery, this book is for you. Experience with jQuery or Javascript would be helpful but solid knowledge base of HTML and CSS is assumed.