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
• Becoming a Good Selector

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

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

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

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

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 with Checkboxes