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In jQuery Essential Training, Microsoft professional Joe Marini presents the 
power of the jQuery library, an open-source JavaScript project that greatly 
simplifies the process of adding advanced functionality to web sites. Joe 
teaches how to use these new features to build pages that work across browsers 
with the functionality that today's users (and clients) are looking for, from 
complex animation effects to dynamic page formatting. Joe pulls all of this 
together, showing how the jQuery UI plug-in can expand and streamline the 
capability of jQuery, and then integrating jQuery design tools into a complete 
sample web site. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
Constructing jQuery selectors and filters to gather information from web pages
Creating, inserting, and manipulating web page content
Understanding jQuery statement chaining
Building event handlers that work across browsers
Working with jQuery effects, such as showing, hiding, and fading page elements
Creating custom animations with specialized properties and options
Using the jQuery UI plug-in to give pages a polished look