Client Templating with jQuery

Templating with jQuery

• Introduction
• What is jQuery
• Prerequisite
• jQuery Templating

• Templates
• An example

Nested Templates

• Nested Templates
• An example

Microsoft Announcements

Conclusion

Introduction:

jQuery templating is becoming a new buzzword for the new Web applications. One cannot avoid jQuery in web applications. Currently most of the applications are using jQuery heavily. It provides very good look & feel and better performance.

There are a lot of plugins are also available for jQuery, they provides really cool feature. We can provide a very new and trendy look and feel with the help of jQuery. Also, as we are making very rich application, performance is also becoming a key point for our applications. jQuery helps a lot in this regard also. We will be discussing mainly jQuery Templating in this article.

What is jQuery:

jQuery is a JavaScript library that works on top of the JavaScript. jQuery provides a very simple way for HTML document traversing, DOM manipulation, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. That could have been very complex while working with normal JavaScript.

jQuery is becoming more and more popular day by day. Even it was integrated with VS2008 and also available with VS2010. jQuery is open source. Due to its features, Microsoft started to support jQuery team and also working with them, to provide better web based tools to their Clients.

Prerequisite:

jQuery library
A plugin for templating
JSON library
jQuery already comes with VS2008/2010. But if you are working VS 2005 then you can download from the following link.
Download jQuery

To download plugin for templating feature, click here
Relax guys!! you won't need this plugin after jQuery 1.5. This would integrated with the main library itself :)

To download JSON library, click here

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