Building on your existing SQL skills, this book teaches you how to apply useful jQuery techniques to applications developed using the Oracle Application Express (APEX) development tool.

Pro jQuery in Oracle Application Express covers the fundamentals you need to start enhancing your applications, with some practical examples that you'll want in your own applications tomorrow. jQuery is a framework already utilized by APEX, and by learning the basics of jQuery you can leverage the flexible dynamic actions provide and see your applications raise the bar. Discover why you should embrace HTML5, CSS, and jQuery library capabilities, and how they can enhance the user experience.

Oracle Application Express is a mature, browser-based, rapid-development environment with a strong community base around the #orclapex tag. jQuery is a language for the browser, with it you can treat your web page as if it were a database, interacting with a range of features and functions that can make you into a more constructive, more efficient developer.

Exemplifies how productive APEX, CSS, and jQuery can beTransforms your PL/SQL skills to CSS and jQueryProvides jQuery snippets to enhance your application UX

Scott Wesley is a database consultant and trainer with the Sage Computing Services team. Since joining the industry at the turn of the century, Wesley has gained analyst programming& design experience in a wide variety of applications within retail, construction, government, and financial sectors. He's used predominantly PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, and, beginning in 2008, Oracle Application Express. Scott has actively researched and applied cutting edge technologies from the Oracle product range and blogs with passion at grassroots-oracle.com

Part I: Getting Started.-Chapter 1: CSS - The Secret.-Chapter 2: jQuery Fundamentals.-Chapter 3: Browser Tools.-Part II: Working in CSS.-Chapter 4: Enlarging Content.-Chapter 5: Firing Dynamic Actions.-Chapter 6: Implementing jQuery Alternatives.-Chapter 7: Highlighting Selected Rows.-Chapter 8: Adding Buttons to Reports.-Part III: Implementing Processes.-Chapter 9: Choosing Process Options.-Chapter 10: Linking a Checkbox to a Collection.-Chapter 11: Using jQuery Dialogs.-

Chapter 12: Using Modal Forms.-Chapter 13: Receiving Information from the Database.-Part IV: Embellishing Reports.-Chapter 14: Adding Visualisation with JSON.-Chapter 15: Applying jQuery Post-Render.-Chapter 16: Clicking Entire Rows.-Chapter 17: Customizing the "No Data Found" Message.-Chapter 18: Customising Pagination.-Part V: Creating HTML5 Widgets and CSS Bonuses.-Chapter 19: Validating from the File Browse Widget.-Chapter 20: Writing Media Queries