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Learning jQuery - Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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Learning jQuery - Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones. Because many web developers have more experience with HTML and CSS than with JavaScript, the library's design lends itself to a quick start for designers with little programming experience. Experienced programmers will also be aided by its conceptual consistency. LearningjQuery - Fourth Edition is revised and updated version of jQuery. You will learn the basics of jQuery for adding interactions and animations to your pages. Even if previous attempts at writing JavaScript have left you baffled, this book will guide you past the pitfalls associated with AJAX, events, effects, and advanced JavaScript language features. Starting with an introduction to jQuery, you will first be shown how to write a functioning jQuery program in just three lines of code. Learn how to add impact to your actions through a set of simple visual effects and to create, copy, reassemble, and embellish content using jQuery's DOM modification methods. The book will take you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even equip you to extend the jQuery library itself with your own plug-ins.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Learning jQuery Fourth Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

DOM manipulation methods in a nutshell


The extensive DOM manipulation methods that jQuery provides vary according to their task and their target location. We haven't covered them all here, but most are analogous to the ones we've seen, and more will be discussed in Chapter 12, Advanced DOM Manipulation. The following outline can serve as a reminder of which method we can use to accomplish which task:

  • To create new elements from HTML, use the $() function

  • To insert new elements inside every matched element, use the following functions:

    • .append()

    • .appendTo()

    • .prepend()

    • .prependTo()

  • To insert new elements adjacent to every matched element, use the following functions:

    • .after()

    • .insertAfter()

    • .before()

    • .insertBefore()

  • To insert new elements around every matched element, use the following functions:

    • .wrap()

    • .wrapAll()

    • .wrapInner()

  • To replace every matched element with new elements or text, use the following functions:

    • .html()

    • .text()

    • .replaceAll()

    • .replaceWith()

  • To remove elements inside...