Fundamentals of Web Development Fundamentals of Web Development Randy Connolly and Ricardo Hoar Textbook to be published by Pearson Ed in early 2014 h:p://www.funwebdev.com © 2015 Pearson Advanced JavaScript & JQuery Chapter 15 Fundamentals of Web Development Objectives JavaScript Pseudo-Classes jQuery Foundations AJAX 1 2 3 7 Animation 5 Asynchronous File Transmission 4 Backbone MVC Frameworks 6 Fundamentals of Web Development JAVASCRIPT PSEUDO-CLASSES Section 1 of 6 Fundamentals of Web Development Object Oriented Design • JavaScript has no formal class mechanism. • Many common features of object-oriented programming, such as inheritance and even simple methods, must be arrived at through these nonintuiMve means. • These “strange” techniques give JavaScript a bad reputaMon, but can easily be mastered. Without Classes Fundamentals of Web Development Using Object Literals An object can be instanMated using object literals. Object literals are a list of key-value pairs with colons between the key and value with commas separaMng key-value pairs. Object literals are also known as Plain Objects in jQuery. Without Classes Fundamentals of Web Development Using Object Literals An object can be instanMated using object literals. Object literals are also known as Plain Objects in jQuery. Object literals are a list of key-value pairs with colons between the key and value with commas separaMng key-value pairs. Without Classes Fundamentals of Web Development Using Object Literals //define a 6 faced dice, with a red color. var oneDie = { color : "FF0000", faces : [1,2,3,4,5,6] }; These elements can be accessed using dot notaMon. For instance, one could change the color to blue by wriMng: oneDie.color="0000FF"; Consider a die (single dice) Fundamentals of Web Development Emulate Classes with functions It is possible to mimic many features of classes by using funcMons to encapsulate variables and methods together. We told you this would get weird Fundamentals of Web Development Emulate Classes with functions It is possible to mimic many features of classes by using funcMons to encapsulate variables and methods together. InstanMaMon looks much like in PHP: var oneDie = new Die("0000FF"); We told you this would get weird Fundamentals of Web Development Emulate Classes with functions One technique for adding a method inside of a class definiMon is by assigning an anonymous funcMon to a variable Add methods to the object – mimic methods Fundamentals of Web Development Emulate Classes with functions One technique for adding a method inside of a class definiMon is by assigning an anonymous funcMon to a variable var oneDie = new Die("0000FF"); console.log(oneDie.randomRoll() + " was rolled"); Add methods to the object – mimic methods Fundamentals of Web Development Emulate Classes with functions Defining methods as we have shown is not a memory- efficient approach because each inline method is redefined for each new object! Not very efficient Fundamentals of Web Development Using Prototypes A be:er approach is to define the method just once using a prototype of the class. • Prototypes are used to make JavaScript behave more like an object-oriented language. • The prototype properMes and methods are defined once for all instances of an object. • Every object has a prototype Prototypes Fundamentals of Web Development Using Prototypes moving the randomRoll() function into the prototype. Fundamentals of Web Development Using Prototypes No duplication of methods Since all instances of a Die share the same prototype object, the funcMon declaraMon only happens one Mme and is shared with all Die instances. Fundamentals of Web Development More about Prototypes There’s more? It should be known that every object (and method) in JavaScript has a prototype. A prototype is an object from which other objects inherit. The above definiMon sounds almost like a class in an object-oriented language, except that a prototype is itself an object, not an abstracMon Fundamentals of Web Development More about Prototypes Extend any Object In addiMon to using prototypes for our own pseudo- classes, prototypes enable you to extend exisMng classes by adding to their prototypes! Below we extend String: Fundamentals of Web Development More about Prototypes Extending String, for example Now any new instances of String will have this method available to them while exisMng strings will not. Now we can use the new method in all new Strings. The following example will output Hello World has 3 leelement with id="grab" you would write: var singleElement = $("#grab"); To get a set of all the elements the selector would be: var allAs = $("a"); These selectors replace the use of getElementById() enMrely. Fundamentals of Web Development More CSS Selectors jQuery’s selectors are powerful indeed In addiMon to these basic selectors, you can use the other CSS selectors that were covered in Chapter 3 on CSS: • a:ribute selectors, • pseudo-element selectors, and • contextual selectors Fundamentals of Web Development More CSS Selectors jQuery’s selectors are powerful indeed Fundamentals of Web Development Attribute Selector Really a review of CSS Recall from CSS that you can select • by a:ribute with square brackets • [a:ribute] • Specify a value with an equals sign • [a:ribute=value] • Search for a parMcular value in the beginning, end, or anywhere inside a string • [a:ribute^=value] • [a:ribute$=value] • [a:ribute*=value] Fundamentals of Web Development Attribute Selector Really a review of CSS Consider a selector to grab all elements with an src a:ribute beginning with /ar?st/ as: var arWstImages = $("img[src^='/arWst/']"); Fundamentals of Web Development Pseudo-Element Selector Not to be confused with the pseudo-classes in JavaScript pseudo-element selectors are also from CSS and allow you to append to any selector using the colon and one of • :link • :visited • :focus • :hover • :acMve • :checked • :first-child, :first-line, and :first-le:er Fundamentals of Web Development Pseudo-Element Selector Not to be confused with the pseudo-classes in JavaScript SelecMng all links that have been visited, for example, would be specified with: var visitedLinks = $("a:visited"); Fundamentals of Web Development Contextual Selector Put it into context Contextual selectors are also from CSS. Recall that these include: • descendant (space) • child (>) • adjacent sibling (+) • and general sibling (~). To select all
elements inside of
elements you would write var para = $("div p"); Fundamentals of Web Development Content Filters The content filter is the only jQuery selector that allows you to append filters to all of the selectors you’ve used thus far and match a parMcular pa:ern. Select elements that have: • a parMcular child using :has() • have no children using :empty • match a parMcular piece of text with :contains() Above and Beyond CSS Fundamentals of Web Development Content Filters $("body *:contains('warning')”) Above and Beyond CSS Fundamentals of Web Development Form Selectors Above and Beyond CSS Selector CSS Equivalent DescripWon $(:bu:on) $("bu:on, input[type='bu:on']") Selects all bu:ons $(:checkbox) $('[type=checkbox]‘) Selects all checkboxes $(:checked) No Equivalent Selects elements that are checked. This includes radio bu:ons and checkboxes. $(:disabled) No Equivalent Selects form elements that are disabled. $(:enabled) No Equivalent Opposite of :disabled $(:file) $('[type=file]') Selects all elements of type file $(:focus) $( document.acMveElement ) The element with focus $(:image) $('[type=image]') Selects all elements of type image $(:input) No Equivalent Selects all ,