On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:05 PM, northernLights <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Richard. I knew I was missing some steps. I really didn't > know where to begin. Since my mission was to use the accordion and > the tabs for a school project, > I selected to use those tutorials. I've been trying to understand > jQuery for over a week, but I don't remember there being any specific > order of learning. So, thanks for the link to the proper tutorial. > > I'm using IE 7 as default. I'll use FF going forward. I have Firebug > installed but never used it at all. I usually use the Web Developer > add on. > > Yeh, I've seen the document.ready function in documentation when I > initially started researching jQuery. I just haven't been able to > find it again, so thanks for the link on that. > > Regarding using the .datepicker on a div. I was just following the > example by adding the input box. For some weird reason, I thought > once I linked the .js files, if I started typing numbers inside the > textbox, that the textbox was like "smart" and the datepicker would > appear underneath, -- kinda like intellisense, in the example at: > http://jqueryui.com/docs/Getting_Started. When that didn't happen, I > tried a few events, onblur, onchange, onclick -- just to get the > calendar widget to display--- since it didn't displayby typing input > or once the page loaded. > > Thanks for providing the link to the datepicker tutorial. It's not > really the datepicker I want to use, it just happened to be in the > tutorial. I thought I could use that as an example in order to > understand how to add the widgets (whether it was an accordion or the > tabs) to a page. I figured they would be added basically the same > way. > I'm glad you got it figured out. > > On a different note: > Is jQuery easy to learn? I'm beginning to teaching myself Javascript > DOM scripting and I'm wondering whether or not I should even attempt > to learn how to use libraries. Yes. DOM scripting, especially cross-browser, is painful. jQuery eases that pain. > I thought it would be like copying & > pasting javascript code. But it seems to be a language of it's > own....? > jQuery makes it easy to write JavaScript, especially parts that deal with the DOM, in a lot simpler way, so that can kind of make it seem like its own language. But it's just JavaScript. - Richard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en.
