Benefits of jQuery

• Cross-browser Compatibility, CSS3 Selectors
• Helpful Utilities, jQuery UI, Plugins
• Keeping Markup Clean, Widespread Adoption

Downloading and Including jQuery

• Downloading jQuery, The Google CDN
• Nightlies and Subversion
• Uncompressed or compressed?

Anatomy of a jQuery Script

• The jQuery Alias
• Dissecting a jQuery Statement

Selecting: The Core of jQuery

• Simple Selecting
• Narrowing Down Our Selection
• Testing Our Selection, Filters
• Selecting Multiple Elements

Images

• Custom Lightboxes,
• Troubleshooting with console.log
• ColorBox: A Lightbox Plugin
• Cropping Images with Jcrop

Slideshows

• Cross-fading Slideshows, Scrolling Slideshows
• iPhoto-like Slideshow widget

Menus

• Expandable/Collapsible Menus
• Open/Closed Indicators
• Menu Expand on Hover
• Drop-down Menus

Accordion Menus

• A Simple Accordion, Multiple-level Accordions
• jQuery UI Accordion

Decorating: CSS with jQuery

• Reading CSS Properties
• Setting CSS Properties, Classes

Enhancing: Adding Effects with jQuery

• Hiding and Revealing Elements,
• Progressive Enhancement, Adding New Elements
• Removing Existing Elements, Modifying Content
• Basic Animation: Hiding and Revealing with Flair
• Callback Functions

Tabs

• Basic Tabs
•  jQuery UI Tabs

Panels and Panes

• Slide-down Login Form
•  Sliding Overlay

Tooltips

• Simple Tooltips
•  Advanced Tooltips

Construction and Best Practices

• Cleaner jQuery
• Client-side Templating

Forms

• Simple Form Validation, Check All Checkboxes
• Form Validation with the Validation Plugin
• Maximum Length Indicator, Form Hints

Animating

• Animating CSS Properties, Colour Animation
• Easing, Bouncy Content Panes
• The Animation Queue, Chaining Actions
• Pausing the Chain, Animated Navigation
• The jQuery User Interface Library

Scrolling

• The ‘scroll’ Event, Floating Navigation
• Scrolling the Document, Custom Scroll Bars

Resizing

• The resize Event
•  Resizable Elements

Controls

• Date Picker
• Sliders, Drag and Drop
• jQuery UI sortable, Progress Bar

Lists

• jQuery UI Selectables
• Sorting Lists
• Manipulating Select Box Lists

Tables

• Fixed Table Headers
• Repeating Header
• Data Grids
• Selecting Rows wit