jQuery in Action: A Beginner's Guide

jQuery in Action: A Beginner's Guide is an introductory jQuery textbook for web front-end beginners, edited by Tang Dong and Zhang Fuyin, published in 2015 by Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Press. The book runs about 260,000 characters across 165 pages and 16 chapters. In the preface, the authors note that most jQuery books on the market at the time covered only basic usage and lacked the step of building a complete example with jQuery from scratch, which made it hard for beginners to get started and unappealing for experienced developers to read closely; the book therefore attempts to depart from the traditional approach, emphasizing instruction through real cases and guaranteeing that the source code in the book is runnable. The content begins with jQuery's positioning and how to include it, introduces the core basics first, then proceeds through regular selectors, filter selectors, basic DOM and CSS operations, DOM node operations, and form selectors, forming a complete chain of selecting, manipulating, and getting feedback from page elements; it then moves into events, from basic events and the event object to advanced events, with a separate chapter on animation effects; for data interaction, two chapters cover AJAX and advanced AJAX; and it closes with utility functions and the plugin mechanism, culminating in a comprehensive project called "Zhiwen Frontend" that ties the previously scattered knowledge points into a complete development exercise. The structure is clear and the length compact, making it suitable for introductory courses that combine classroom teaching with self-study.