What this book covers

Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery, is an introduction to the jQuery library and JavaScript. You'll learn about jQuery's rise to fame, why it's so great for designers, and how it can help you create some fancy special effects without having to learn a lot of code. This chapter also includes a gentle and small introduction to JavaScript, and steps you through writing your first JavaScript code.

Chapter 2, Enhancing Links, walks you through some basic enhancements to links. You'll learn how to use jQuery to open a link in a new window, how to add icons to links, and how to turn a list of links into a tabbed interface.

Chapter 3, Making a Better FAQ Page, will introduce you to collapsing and showing content, as well as traversing an HTML document to move from one element to another. In this chapter, we'll set up a basic FAQ list, then work on progressively enhancing it to make it easier for our site visitors to use.