jQuery Table Manipulation

Learning jQuery - Table Manipulation

By Karl Swedberg, Jonathan Chaffer Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques

Learning jQuery
http://www.packtpub.com/jQuery/book

Authors

Jonathan Chaffer

Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.

In the open-source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal's menu system and developer API reference.

Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on "web standards"—semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.

Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever since.

Karl's other obsessions include photography, karate, English grammar, and fatherhood. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia.

Table Manipulation

Let 'em wear gaudy colors Or avoid display —Devo, "Wiggly World"

In the first six chapters, we explored the jQuery library in a series of tutorials that focused on each jQuery component and used examples as a way to see those components in action. In Chapters 7 through 9 we invert the process; we'll begin with the examples and see how we can use jQuery methods to achieve them.

Here we will use an online bookstore as our model website, but the techniques we cook up can be applied to a wide variety of other sites as well, from weblogs to portfolios, from market-facing business sites to corporate intranets. Chapters 7 and 8 focus on two common elements of most sites—tables and forms—while Chapter 9 examines a couple of ways to visually enhance sets of information using animated shufflers and rotators.

Thanks to Duane Moraes @ Packt Publishing for giving opportunity to provide sample chapter for Exforsys members.

Learning jQuery Sample Chapter 7 Table Manipulation

1. jQuery Sorting
2. jQuery - JavaScript Sorting
3. jQuery - Basic Alphabetical Sorting
4. jQuery - The Power of Plug-ins
5. jQuery - Finessing the Sort Key
6. jQuery - Sorting Other Types of Data
7. jQuery - Column Highlighting
8. jQuery Pagination
9. jQuery - JavaScript Pagination
10. jQuery - Enabling the Pager Buttons
11. jQuery - Marking the Current Page
12. jQuery Completed sorting and paging code
13. jQuery Advanced Row Striping
14. jQuery Three-color Alternating Pattern
15. jQuery Alternating Triplets
16. jQuery Row Highlighting
17. jQuery Tooltips 
18. jQuery Collapsing and Expanding Table Rows
19. jQuery Table Row Filtering
20. jQuery Collecting Filter Options from Content
21. jQuery Interacting with Other Code
22. jQuery Expanding and Collapsing Table Rows
23. jQuery Table Row Finished Code

Learning jQuery Book is available for purchase at http://www.packtpub.com/jQuery/book