Exercise 5 - jQuery

For this exercise, you will be exploring jQuery.

1. My instructions here will be for the “Getting Started with jQuery” tutorial. If you'd like to use another jQuery tutorial, you're free to do so. Just make sure to include a link to the tutorial so we know what you're doing.

2. Work through the tutorial. See the next “step” for some notes on that.

   [Note: the Tablesorter link in the tutorial is broken. See the Tablesorter download page.]

3. Instead of deleting and creating a new $(document).ready function with every step, add the new code to the $(document).ready, so we can see that you've gone through the steps (except where that really doesn't make sense—use your judgement).

   While you're doing the tutorial, insert HTML as necessary to demonstrate the Javascript you're writing.

   You may want to link this stylesheet to your page: some of the steps rely on some CSS rules being in place for maximum effect.

   I'd suggest you skip the “Rate me: Using Ajax” section (since it involves setting some stuff up server-side) and the “Plug me: Writing your own plugins” section (since it's not necessary to understand the basics).

   Obviously, if you're doing some other tutorial, adapt that advice as best you can.

4. Upload your page (and all of the files needed to make it work) to somewhere we can see it, possibly the course web server.

Submit the URLs of your work through the Course Management System.