jQuery
http://jquery.com/
Recently, jQuery obtains good reputations as a light weight AJAX framework. Yes, it’s light. The thing is, the main framework itself is light and has simple basic functions. It seems like lack of enough functionalities. And jQuery presents lots of plugins working with/without jQuery itself. In result, you can combine jQuery framework and the other plugins which you need to use.
The main reason why I took a look at jQuery was for the project. It was one of the requirement from my client – to use jQuery. Why not?!
So, I’d like to give newbies here some useful resources – including instructions, other resources and practical comments.
jQuery Basics
To get it and set it to use, check this out. http://ui.jquery.com/download You can build your own jQuery framework by choosing components. Or, you can download whole package. Now, you know what to do. To use it, put this in your <head>
<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”UTF-8″ language=”javascript” src=”./scripts/jquery-1.2.6.js”></script>
Plugins
I used some plugins for my project.
- jquery.json-1.3.js
- jquery.ui.all.js
- jquery.layout.js
You can find more at http://plugins.jquery.com/ Again, I put this to my head.
<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”UTF-8″ language=”javascript” src=”./scripts/jquery.ui.all.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”UTF-8″ language=”javascript” src=”./scripts/jquery.layout.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”UTF-8″ language=”javascript” src=”./scripts/jquery.json-1.3.js”></script>
CSS Basics
I recommend you to take a look at this for CSS stuffs. http://ui.jquery.com/themeroller/ It will help you get CSS for jQuery components like Accordion, Dialog and etc. Still, you need to create and use your own CSS styles but this will reduce your .. work definitely – if you are going to use UI components that jQuery provides. It’s time to put this to <head>.
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”./css/jquery-ui-themeroller.css” />
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”./css/jquery-layout.css” />
I put the first one which is from tehmeroller and the second one is my own for layout things. You can find some for jqeury-layout plugin by googling.
Now you are ready to use jQuery and plugins. FYI, here’s some more links that may help you.
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