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Instant jQuery Selectors

By : Aurelio De Rosa
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Instant jQuery Selectors

By: Aurelio De Rosa

Overview of this book

jQuery's selectors is one of the most important concepts of the jQuery library. Usually, the first thing you do is to select one or more elements of a page in order to manipulate them. Therefore, to efficiently learn the usage of jQuery's selectors is one of the first steps to successfully build your website. Instant jQuery Selectors is a practical guide that will teach you how to use jQuery's selectors efficiently in order to easily select theelements of your pages to operate upon with jQuery's methods. You will go through the most common problems that you could face while developing your project and will learn how to solve them with the help of focused examples that Instant jQuery Selectors has to offer. Instant jQuery Selectors, starting from how to set up jQuery and how to choose the right version for your project, explains to you all the selectors available using a multitude of simple and practical recipes that will help you start using selectors in the right way. Reading the presented recipes you'll learn about the numerous selectors and filters of jQuery – almost 100 of them! You will see how to reuse collections, the methods to filter collections, and how to take advantage of the lesser known parameter of jQuery's constructor: context. Also, you'll discover the methods to traverse the DOM and the techniques to improve the performance of your website by just tweaking selectors. Instant jQuery Selectors is the resource to learn everything you need to know about jQuery's selectors.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

About the Reviewer

Kent C. Dodds is a young and upcoming front end developer. Kent is currently pursuing his Masters in Information Systems Management degree from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Kent anticipates staying on with Domo Technologies Incorporated upon his graduation as an AngularJS front-end developer. Domo Technologies is a start up making huge waves in the Business Intelligence world and Kent looks forward to helping make that wave grow bigger.

Kent was born and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho as the eleventh child of twelve and has always loved spending time with family. Kent grew up loving being productive with computers and his interests have only grown with time.

Kent loves to contribute to the online community and hopes that his StackOverflow, GitHub, and Google+ accounts will provide himself and others opportunities to discover new technologies to improve themselves professionally.

In his spare time, Kent enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Brooke and their daughter Becca. They are expecting another addition to their little family in December 2013, and on the day of writing this, Kent and Brooke celebrated their second anniversary. Of course, Kent would like to thank Brooke and Becca without whom he would be a lot less happy and a less satisfied person. Kent also enjoys investigating new technologies and building new things to always keep learning.

Feel free to connect with Kent online at http://kent.doddsfamily.us.