Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free One-Day Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
More Buying Choices
31 used & new from £17.99

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
jQuery in Action
 
See larger image
 

jQuery in Action (Paperback)

by Bear Bibeault (Author), Yehuda Katz (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
RRP: £28.99
Price: £24.59 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £4.40 (15%)
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Tuesday, July 7? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
20 new from £18.48 11 used from £17.99

Frequently Bought Together

jQuery in Action + Learning JQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple Javascript Techniques + JQuery Reference Guide
Price For All Three: £72.07

Show availability and shipping details


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

JavaScript: The Good Parts

JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford
4.4 out of 5 stars (5)  £19.54
Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

by Rob Conery
4.2 out of 5 stars (5)  £22.09
Learning JQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple Javascript Techniques

Learning JQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple Javascript Techniques

by Karl Swedberg
4.6 out of 5 stars (5)  £23.74
JQuery Reference Guide

JQuery Reference Guide

by Karl Swedberg
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)  £23.74
Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug
4.7 out of 5 stars (69)  £18.24
Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 376 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications; illustrated edition edition (7 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1933988355
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933988351
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,978 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #5 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Languages > HTML & XHTML
    #8 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Web Development > E-commerce > Web Graphics & Animation
    #26 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Languages & Tools

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
Custom AJAX Development
   www.INM.com/Services/    Outsource to AJAX experts with 17+ years of custom dev experience 
AJAX Specialists
   www.sense.co.uk    Speeding up your web pages and incresing conversion rates. 
InterSystems Zen
   InterSystems.com/Cache    RIA Capabilities in InterSystems Caché DB. Free Download. 
  
 

Product Description

Product Description
A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionals alike-fall in love with jQuery the minute they've reduced 20 lines of clunky JavaScript into three lines of elegant, readable code. This new, concise JavaScript library radically simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

jQuery in Action, like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make you a more efficient and effective web developer. In a short 300 pages, this book introduces you to the jQuery programming model and guides you through the major features and techniques you'll need to be productive immediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks you'll tackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages where you immediately put your jQuery knowledge to work.

There are dozens of JavaScript libraries available now, with major companies like Google, Yahoo and AOL open-sourcing their in-house tools. This book shows you how jQuery stacks up against other libraries and helps you navigate interaction with other tools and frameworks.

jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript. This book covers all major features and capabilities in a manner focused on getting the reader up and running with jQuery from the very first sections. Web Developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.

About the Author
Bear Bibeault has been working in the area of web applications since the mid-90s, getting started with beta versions of JSP and Servlets. He is a senior moderator at the popular JavaRanch site, and has contributed articles to that site's JavaRanch Journal. He also co-authored two other Manning books: Ajax in Practice and Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Bear works and resides in Austin, TX.

Yehuda Katz contributes actively to jQuery, heading up the plugin development team. He also runs Visual jQuery, a dynamic, brosable version of the jQuery API, used heavily by new users of the library and core developers alike. Born in Minnesota and raised in New York, he now lives in sunny Santa Barbara, CA, where he works for Procore Technologies.


Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?


 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars jQuery is the cats pjyamas for Javascript DOM manipulation., 18 Oct 2008
By Mr. Jeremy Flowers "Looking for Java work" (Milton Keynes, UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
If you've ever tried to do DOM manipulation of a web page and had to deal with browser quirks you'll find jQuery and this book will make you want to look at web development again with a reinvigorated spirit. jQuery does a brilliant job of levelling the playing field giving you a Javascript library that abstracts away the complexites behind a common API. It's extensible to via plug-ins, so the scope for enhancement is there.
The authors have a wry sense of humour that is refreshing and informative. Maybe this books adage should be.. "The labs are worth a thousand words". Whenever things get a bit heavy going, you can run the lab examples and get your heads around things. It's a great way to hone your jQuery skills.
Chapter 8 contains some of the most interesting stuff for me. It covers using jQuery with Ajax. For this you'll need to host the apps in Tomcat. A familiarity with Java helps a bit here, so you'll understand the conversations revolving around servlets. (Though I think PHP will do to).
If you've used SAX, JDOM or similar parser technologies on the Java server-side, you'll appreciate how succint and cool this technology is. You can achieve big things with minimal effort. As well as being able to do XPath type node selection, you can do CSS style selector syntax matching. (Try Googling on selectors and look at the pattern table in the W3C docs).
If your a novice or a rusty Javascipt developer, the Appendices give a good refresher on the likes of closures. All in all this is a good book with excellent examples which I thoroughly recommend.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]

   


Listmania!


Look for similar items by category


Look for similar items by subject


Feedback


The Body Shop

The Body Shop - Vitamin C Skin Boost
Protect and boost your glow with The Body Shop Vitamin C Skin Boost.

Shop The Body Shop

 

More From Bear Bibeault

Prototype and Scriptaculous...

Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action

Prototype and Scriptaculous are libraries that extend standard Ajax. Read more
£31.99 £27.19

 

We've Got Converse

Converse
Stock up on your favourite styles with great deals on Converse shoes.

Shop Converse

 

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

Learn more about Gift Certificates

 
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.

Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates