jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide

This book and eBook will enable you to quickly master all of jQuery's animation methods and build a toolkit of ready-to-use animations using jQuery 1.4.

Key Features

• Create both simple and complex animationsusing clear, step-by-step instructions, accompanied with screenshots
• Walk throughjQuery’s built-in animationmethods and see in detail how each one can be used
• Over 50 detailed examplesof different types of web page animations
• Attractive pictures and screenshots that show animations in progress and how the examples should finally appear
• Contains examples featuring many new HTML5 elements and CSS3 styling
• Follow the examples in a step-by-step approach beginning with simple concepts and building up to more advanced implementations

Book Description

What you will learn

• Implement subtle UI effects, user-triggered animations and full-page feature animations to animate the user interface of your web applications
• Fade, hide, shrink, and slide your animations using jQuery's built-in animation helper methods
• Create custom animations using jQuery's animate() method
• Discover how the animation queue works and how it can be manipulated to create complex animations
• Simulate animation in a variety of ways using other non-animation-specific jQuery methods
• Discover how jQuery can be used to make the latest CSS3 and canvas animations work cross-browser
• Obtain and set up jQuery UI— the official user interface library for jQuery
• Define custom animations that can be complex and specialized
• Extend the jQuery library with brand new functions and methods in the form of plugins
• Get your images scrolled in a certain direction, and at a certain speed, depending on the movements of the mouse pointer
• Create a continuous header animation manually with just a few lines of code

Who this book is for

This book is written for web designers and front-end developers who already have good knowledge of HTML and CSS, and some experience with jQuery. If you want to learn how to animate the user interface of your web applications with jQuery, then this book is for you.