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Table of Contents<br />
The Story behind the <strong>Succinctly</strong> Series of Books ................................................................................... 9<br />
About the Author ....................................................................................................................................... 11<br />
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 12<br />
Preface ....................................................................................................................................................... 13<br />
<strong>jQuery</strong> semantics ................................................................................................................................... 13<br />
How the book is structured .................................................................................................................... 13<br />
More code, less words ........................................................................................................................... 13<br />
Why oh why did I use alert() for code examples? ............................................................................. 13<br />
Color coding ........................................................................................................................................... 14<br />
Completely grok <strong>jQuery</strong> text() before reading this book .................................................................... 14<br />
Code examples ...................................................................................................................................... 15<br />
Chapter 1 Core <strong>jQuery</strong> ............................................................................................................................. 16<br />
Base concept behind <strong>jQuery</strong> .................................................................................................................. 16<br />
The concept, behind the concept, behind <strong>jQuery</strong> .................................................................................. 16<br />
<strong>jQuery</strong> requires HTML to run in standards mode or almost-standards mode ....................................... 17<br />
Waiting on the DOM to be ready ........................................................................................................... 17<br />
Executing <strong>jQuery</strong> code when the browser window is completely loaded .............................................. 18<br />
Include all CSS files before including <strong>jQuery</strong> ......................................................................................... 19<br />
Using a hosted version of <strong>jQuery</strong> ........................................................................................................... 19<br />
Executing <strong>jQuery</strong> code when DOM is parsed without using ready() ................................................... 19<br />
Grokking <strong>jQuery</strong> chaining....................................................................................................................... 20<br />
Breaking the chain with destructive methods ........................................................................................ 21<br />
Using destructive <strong>jQuery</strong> methods and exiting destruction using end() ............................................... 22<br />
Aspects of the <strong>jQuery</strong> function ............................................................................................................... 23<br />
Grokking when the keyword this refers to DOM elements .................................................................. 23<br />
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