Learning from jQuery

Preface;
Who This Book Is For;
Who This Book Isn't For;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Event Handling;
1.1 Listening for Events;
1.2 Event Propagation;
1.3 Triggering Events;
1.4 Removing Event Handlers;
1.5 Adding a "Once Only" Event Listener;
1.6 Summary;
Chapter 2: Constructors and Prototypes;
2.1 Constructors;
2.2 Prototypes;
2.3 Summary;
Chapter 3: DOM Traversal and Manipulation;
3.1 Selecting an Element;
3.2 Selecting Children;
3.3 Selecting the Next Element;
3.4 Creating an Element;
3.5 Modifying an Existing Element;
3.6 Cycling Through Elements;
3.7 Moving and Copying Elements;
3.8 Summary;
Chapter 4: AJAX;
4.1 Sending an AJAX Request;
4.2 Debugging;
4.3 Sending POST Requests in JavaScript;
4.4 Writing a Wrapper Function;
4.5 A Simple Application of AJAX;
4.6 Designing a Site with AJAX;
4.7 Summary;
Chapter 5: JavaScript Conventions;
5.1 Writing JavaScript;
5.2 Literals Notation;
5.3 Optimizations;
5.4 Functions;
5.5 Code Reuse;
5.6 Common Antipatterns;
5.7 Common Design Patterns;
5.8 Summary;
JavaScript Basics;
Hello World!;
Comments;
Variables;
Numbers;
Functions;
Objects;
Finding the Type of a Variable;
Arrays;
Looping;
Conditional Statements;
Delays;
Regular Expressions;
Error Handling;
Summary;
JavaScript Resources;
A Good IDE;
GitHub;
JSHint;
JSPerf;
Mozilla Developer Network;
Pastebins;
Version Control Software;
Colophon;

Callum Macrae is a professional JavaScript developer based in the UK. He regularly contributes JavaScript related patches to open source projects, including phpBB and jQuery++. When not coding or writing, he spends most of his time drumming or cycling.