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jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Design interactive websites to improve user experience by using the popular JavaScript library

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Natalie Maclees  
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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    A step-by-step guide that spices up your web pages and designs them in the way you want using the most widely used JavaScript library, jQuery. The beginner-friendly and easy-to-understand approach of the book will help get to grips with jQuery in no time. If you know the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, and want to extend your knowledge by learning to use JavaScript, then this is just the book for you. jQuery makes JavaScript straightforward and approachable – you'll be surprised at how easy it can be to add animations and special effects to your beautifully designed pages.

    What you will learn

    • Download and include the jQuery library on your website
    • Make tabbed interfaces and custom tooltips
    • Construct an accordion to improve an FAQ page
    • Build an interactive, animated dropdown menu
    • Show images, videos, and other content in lightboxes
    • Create slideshows, sliders, and carousels
    • Improve responsive designs and topography
    • React to users scrolling down your page
    • Improve forms to make them more beautiful and more usable

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Saying 'Hello There!' with jQuery
    2. Enhancing Links
    3. Making a Better FAQ page
    4. Building an Interactive Navigation Menu
    5. Showing Content in a Lightbox
    6. Creating Slideshows and Sliders
    7. Working with Responsive Design
    8. Getting the Most From Images
    9. Improving Typography
    10. Displaying Data Beautifully
    11. Reacting to Scrolling
    12. Improving Forms
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78328-454-2
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 398

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