Chapter 8
Advanced Selectors, Traversing, and DOM Manipulation
Section 1
Lesson Overview
Sizzle is the component within jQuery that is responsible for parsing the CSS selector expressions we put into the $() function. It determines which native DOM methods to use as it builds a collection of elements that we can then act on with other jQuery methods. The combination of Sizzle and jQuery's set of traversal methods makes jQuery an extremely powerful tool for finding elements on the page. Let’s look at it in more detail.