Selecting form elements by type .............................................................................................. 67 Selecting all form elements ...................................................................................................... 67
Chapter 6 Events ................................................................................................................... 69 Not limited to a single ready () event ...................................................................................... 69 Attaching / removing events using bind () and unbind () ........................................................ 69 Programmatically invoke a specific handler via short event methods ..................................... 71 jQuery normalizes the event object ......................................................................................... 71 Event object attributes ............................................................................................................................. 72 Event object methods .............................................................................................................................. 72 Grokking event namespacing .................................................................................................. 72 Grokking event delegation ....................................................................................................... 74 Applying event handlers to DOM elements regardless of DOM updates using live () .......... 75 Adding a function to several event handlers ............................................................................ 76 Cancel default browser behavior with preventDefault () ..................................................... 77 Cancel event propagation with stopPropagation () .............................................................. 77 Cancelling default behavior and event propagation via return false .................................. 78 Create custom events and trigger them via trigger () .......................................................... 79 Cloning events as well as DOM elements ............................................................................... 79 Getting X and Y coordinates of the mouse in the viewport ...................................................... 80 Getting X and Y coordinates of the mouse relative to another element .................................. 80
Chapter 7 jQuery and the Web Browser ............................................................................. 82 Disabling the right-click contextual menu ................................................................................ 82 Scrolling the browser window .................................................................................................. 82
Chapter 8 Plugins ................................................................................................................. 84 Use the $ alias when constructing a plugin ............................................................................. 84 New plugins attach to jQuery . fn object to become jQuery methods ..................................... 84 Inside a plugin , this is a reference to the current jQuery object ............................................ 85 Using each () to iterate over the jQuery object and provide a reference to each element in the object using the this keyword ................................................................................................ 86 Plugin returning jQuery object so jQuery methods or other plugins can be chained after using plugin ....................................................................................................................................... 87 Default plugin options .............................................................................................................. 88 Custom plugin options ............................................................................................................. 88 Overwriting default options without altering original plugin code ............................................. 89 Create elements on the fly , invoke plugins programmatically .................................................. 90 Providing callbacks and passing context ................................................................................. 91
Chapter 9 Effects .................................................................................................................. 93
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