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Getting Started with jQuery 3 [Video]

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Getting Started with jQuery 3 [Video]

Overview of this book

If you are a web developer and want to create web applications that look good, are efficient, have rich user interfaces, and integrate seamlessly with any backend using AJAX, then this video is the ideal match for you. We’ll show you how you can integrate jQuery 3.0 into your web pages, avoid complex JavaScript code, create brilliant animation effects for your web applications, and create a flawless app. We start by configuring and customising the jQuery environment and getting hands-on with DOM manipulation. Next, we’ll explore event handling advanced animations, create optimised user interfaces, and build useful third-party plugins. Then you'll learn how to integrate jQuery with your favourite back-end framework. You’ll also discover how to use the newly introduced JavaScript promises and the new animation API in jQuery 3.0 in great detail, along with sample code and examples
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 2
Selecting Elements
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Section 3
Selector Specificity
Selectors in jQuery have a spectrum of specificity, from very general selectors, too much targeted selectors. We will look at an example that increases the size of the first letter for top-level <li> text. - Apply the style to every <li> - Use change the specificity of the jQuery selector