I'm getting more into jQuery and so have set up a HTML/Javascript/CSS base site which I use for all my tests.
Since these tests will eventually turn into PHP and ASP.NET MVC websites, I want to use this opportunity to get the basics down right again for modern browsers and web standards before building the scripting languages on top of it.
I've selected to use:
- XHTML 1.0 Strict
- UTF-8 encoding
- as few CSS references as possible (put everything in 1 CSS file for loading speed)
- as few Javascript references as possible (1 javascript file plus the jquery code base reference - I assume using the Google jQuery code base is best practice for speed)
- I check my code as I build it with the
Is there anything else I need to consider?
Here is an example of one of my test websites:
index.htm:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" ".dtd">
<html xmlns="">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Text XHTML Page</title>
<link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src=""></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/main.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 class="highlightTitle">Text</h1>
<p class="main">First</p>
<p>Second</p>
<p id="selected" class="regular">Third</p>
<p>Fourth</p>
<form action="">
<div>
<input type="button" value="highlight it" onclick="highlightIt();countThem()" />
<input type="button" value="highlight title" onclick="highlightTitle()" />
<p>here is another paragraph</p>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
main.cs:
p.highlighted {
background-color:orange;
}
h1.highlightTitle {
background-color:yellow;
}
h1.deselected {
background-color:#eee;
}
p.regular {
font-weight: bold;
}
main.js:
google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");
function highlightIt() {
$('#selected')
.toggleClass('highlighted');
}
function countThem() {
alert("there are " + $("p.main").size() + " paragraphs");
}
function highlightTitle() {
$("h1").toggleClass("deselected");
}
I'm getting more into jQuery and so have set up a HTML/Javascript/CSS base site which I use for all my tests.
Since these tests will eventually turn into PHP and ASP.NET MVC websites, I want to use this opportunity to get the basics down right again for modern browsers and web standards before building the scripting languages on top of it.
I've selected to use:
- XHTML 1.0 Strict
- UTF-8 encoding
- as few CSS references as possible (put everything in 1 CSS file for loading speed)
- as few Javascript references as possible (1 javascript file plus the jquery code base reference - I assume using the Google jQuery code base is best practice for speed)
- I check my code as I build it with the http://validator.w3
Is there anything else I need to consider?
Here is an example of one of my test websites:
index.htm:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Text XHTML Page</title>
<link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google./jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/main.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 class="highlightTitle">Text</h1>
<p class="main">First</p>
<p>Second</p>
<p id="selected" class="regular">Third</p>
<p>Fourth</p>
<form action="">
<div>
<input type="button" value="highlight it" onclick="highlightIt();countThem()" />
<input type="button" value="highlight title" onclick="highlightTitle()" />
<p>here is another paragraph</p>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
main.cs:
p.highlighted {
background-color:orange;
}
h1.highlightTitle {
background-color:yellow;
}
h1.deselected {
background-color:#eee;
}
p.regular {
font-weight: bold;
}
main.js:
google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");
function highlightIt() {
$('#selected')
.toggleClass('highlighted');
}
function countThem() {
alert("there are " + $("p.main").size() + " paragraphs");
}
function highlightTitle() {
$("h1").toggleClass("deselected");
}
- 1 to me the choices you made look good. xhtml strict, utf-8, jquery ... I think that's what it boils down to when you do some reasearch and tests about what works generally best. – markus Commented Sep 26, 2009 at 11:36
4 Answers
Reset to default 5Personally I would bind to the click event via jQuery to ensure nice separation, like this:
$("#yourId").bind("click", highlightIt);
This way you can bind to multiple event handlers. If you just use onclick AFAIK you can only ever use one handler.
BTW you can also use custom event and event namespaces:
$("#yourId").bind("beforeHighlighting", doSomething);
is triggered by
$("#yourId").trigger("beforeHighlighting");
and
$(".hasAHelptext").bind("helptext.click", showHelptextFct);
$(".hasAHelptext").bind("click", otherFct);
// will only remove the showHelptextFct event handler
$(".hasAHelptext").unbind("helptext.click");
HTH Alex
Move the <script> blocks to the bottom of the page.
With regard to CSS and JS files in general, I wouldn't bine all JS files to a single file during development. It gets very hard to develop in one big JS file. Rather use a module that bines them on-the-fly or during deployment.
I usually go with (both CSS and JS):
one general file:
- project.css
and one per page:
- project_wele.css
and any special ponents (login controls, ad area views etc) have a seperate one as well.
That way you can apply some organizing techniques and won't go crazy managing that single large file.
HTH Alex
I would remend putting the JS calls below the body tag. If your scripts are hanging, then the page can load and let the behavior (JS) load after the fact. I've noticed that speed greatly improves with this method.
Check this out: http://stevesouders./hpws/rule-js-bottom.php