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By Cody Lindley

Foreword by Daniel Jebaraj

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dited by This publication was edited by the Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Team, who provide advanced ASP.NET MVC frameworks for business applications to help you deliver innovationwith ease. Check out samples online at http://mvc.syncfusion.com/sfmvctoolssamplebrowser.

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Table of Contents
The Story behind the Succinctly Series of Books ................................................................... 8 About the Author ...................................................................................................................... 10 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 11 Preface ....................................................................................................................................... 12 jQuery semantics .....................................................................................................................12 How the book is structured ...................................................................................................... 12 More code, less words ............................................................................................................. 12 Why oh why did I use alert() for code examples? ............................................................... 12 Colorcoding............................................................................................................................. 13 Completely grok jQuery text() before reading this book ....................................................... 13 Code examples ........................................................................................................................ 14 Chapter 1 Core jQuery.......................................................................................................... 15 Base concept behind jQuery.................................................................................................... 15 The concept, behind the concept, behind jQuery .................................................................... 16 jQuery requires HTML to run in standardsmode or almost-standards mode .......................... 16 Waiting on the DOM to be ready ............................................................................................. 17 Executing jQuery code when the browser window is completely loaded ................................. 17 Include all CSS files before including jQuery........................................................................... 18 Using a hosted version of jQuery............................................................................................. 18 Executing jQuery code when DOM is parsed without using ready() ..................................... 19 Grokking jQuery chaining ........................................................................................................ 20 Breaking the...