This exercise will have you demonstrate an understanding of Drupal themes and how to develop CSS to theme the default markup created by Drupal, with particular reference to CSS naming conventions.

In this exercise you will demonstrate that you understand the CSS patterns used for smaller elements of Drupal such as fields, and can create selectors which override them appropriately. You will also override template files to create your own markup and suggest new template files.

In this exercise you will demonstrate your ability to attach JavaScript to themes, and use Drupal behaviors to enhance the functionality of a website.

In this exercise you will demonstrate that you understand the concept of responsive CSS and the methods which can be used to implement it in a Drupal theme.

Goes through how to implement the AHAH framework in Drupal 6 in order to provide more dynamic interactions on a Drupal form.

See how the new JavaScript APIs and ajax framework in Drupal 7 allows you to implement dynamic behaviors without having to register a menu callback in the menu system or to write any jQuery code.

Learn how to integrate jQuery scripts into Drupal, and how to leverage the JavaScript capabilities of the Drupal API in both 6.x & 7.x

Jeff Robbins and Nate Haug introduce the jQuery and Drupal integrations that we'll be building in this series, based on the foundations of theming, module development, and jQuery.

• How to add jQuery to a theme
• How to utilize Drupal's drag and drop behavior to reorder elements on a page within any form that has orderable items
• Drupal's direct integration with jQuery through the Forms API in Drupal 6 and Drupal 7
• Building a highly optimized AJAX request to Drupal that will return a JSON result
• The JavaScript state system in Drupal 7

Note: The examples in the video span across Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, and jQuery code that will work either in jQuery version 1.2.6 or 1.4.

Provides a high-level overview of jQuery to people who are brand new to this JavaScript library.

This lesson shows the steps and code to add on the Drupal side in order to load JavaScript scripts to you site. One thing to note is that the HTML5 placeholder attribute makes this plugin invalid markup.

NOTE:
There is a minor change between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, where you should use function($) to wrap your code. For Drupal 7 you can use:


(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#search input.form-text').autofill({
value: Drupal.t('Search...'),
});
});
}(jQuery));


Goes over the Macro Maker demonstration module in order to show what functionality we will be building over the next couple of chapters.

Shows how to pass variables from the PHP and Drupal side over to the front-end JavaScript scripts that are running so that you can use the Drupal interface to create customized settings that will appear in your jQuery scripts.

Goes into depth about some of the JavaScript constructs and tools that Drupal provides when writing JavaScript for Drupal. Topics include using Drupal.behaviors and variable settings.

There where a couple of changes to the Drupal.behaviors system for D7. You can find out more information about the changes here: http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7#drupal_behaviors

And more general information about using the new system here http://drupal.org/node/756722

Once you've converted from the old Drupal.behaviors.myModule = function(context) to the new syntax

Drupal.behaviors.myModule = {
attach: function(context, settings),
detach: function(context, settings)
}

The rest is pretty much the same.

Shows the steps involved in converting a regular table into a table that is sortable by columns that you specify.

A review of the Form API properties that provide interactive user interface elements by automatically adding JavaScript behaviors to the form elements.

Create dependencies between form elements so that you can show/hide or disable/enable one form setting based upon the form state of another from setting.

Go on a brief tour of other jQuery and JavaScript-related contributed modules that are worth knowing about.

A review of all of the material covered within the jQuery & JavaScript in Drupal series.