In this chapter we have created, copied, reassembled, and embellished content using jQuery’s DOM modification methods. We’ve applied these methods to a single web page, transforming a handful of generic paragraphs to a footnoted, pull-quoted, linked, and stylized literary excerpt.

The tutorial section of the book is nearly over, but before we move on to examine more complex, expanded examples, let’s take a round-trip journey to the server via jQuery’s AJAX methods.