While JavaScript is a powerful and popular language, it can be very complex to learn or use. Not any more! jQuery is a popular, lightweight library that takes all the pain out of using raw JavaScript. Even better, jQuery is open source software and free to use unlike other, proprietary web-interactivity solutions. jQuery is not a new language, just a new spin on daunting and difficult JavaScript. Many open source projects and large corporations (such as Adobe, Microsoft, and Google) have adopted jQuery. Today's web pages have dynamic interactivity and Flash-like effects such as fades and slides, and jQuery is at the front of the list of how professionals perform these Web 2.0 tricks. Getting StartED with jQuery will show you how to perform professional level effects with a minimum of pain and effort. * Code JavaScript faster with jQuery * Upgrade your web pages to Web 2.0 * Add style and flair with very little code What you'll learn* Learn how to easily alter pages on the fly. * Show and hide dynamic content. * Control special effects with smooth transitions. * Manipulate live CSS. * Learn how to use Ajax. * Bring fun and power into your web pages. Who this book is for Today's web designers are no longer expected to produce front-ends that are just eye-candy, but now require knowledge of page interactivity while keeping things easy for a user to understand. Thanks to the dominance of web standards like XHTML & CSS, you can now move up to the next level of web design and learn new-wave JavaScript through the power and simplicity of jQuery.