jQuery in Action, Second Edition

jQuery in Action, Second Edition is the Chinese translation of Manning's jQuery in Action, Second Edition, brought to readers by the Turing Program Design Series. The book is built around the idea of "explaining every new concept with practical examples," and systematically covers jQuery's core capabilities: selecting and manipulating page elements with far less code than native JavaScript, traversing the HTML document, binding and delegating events, creating animations and effects, and communicating asynchronously with the server via Ajax. It also devotes specific discussion to the concept of "unobtrusive JavaScript"—separating structure, style, and behavior, and avoiding inline scripts mixed into HTML. The second edition was fully revised to reflect changes from jQuery 1.2 to 1.4, with a large amount of sample code rewritten to reflect the best practices for page scripting at the time; it also adds three chapters on jQuery UI, covering themes and effects, mouse interactions, and widget development, helping readers build richer interface components on top of the core library. The book also explains how to write jQuery plugins and strategies for coexisting with other JavaScript libraries, and demonstrates method behavior through "lab"-style pages that make it easy to try things out while reading. The book is divided into two main parts, "Core jQuery" and "jQuery UI," with an appendix on essential JavaScript knowledge, making it suitable for Web developers of all levels who want to systematically learn this classic library.