jQuery Tutorial

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jQuery is a swift, lightweight, and feature-packed JavaScript library, guided by the principle of "write less, do more." Its user-friendly APIs simplify tasks like HTML document traversal, manipulation, event handling, and adding animation effects, ensuring seamless functionality across major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.

With jQuery, you can effortlessly develop Ajax-based applications for quick and simple implementation. Major companies such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM leverage jQuery for their applications, attesting to its popularity and power.

Created by John Resig in early 2006, the jQuery project is currently overseen by a distributed group of developers as an open-source project.

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Tip: Our jQuery tutorials will guide you through the basics and advanced features step-by-step. If you're a beginner, start with the basics and gradually progress each day.


What jQuery Can Do

There are numerous capabilities offered by jQuery.

  • Easily select elements for manipulation.
  • Create effects like showing or hiding elements, sliding transitions, and more.
  • Create complex CSS animations with concise code.
  • Manipulate DOM elements and their attributes effortlessly.
  • Implement Ajax for asynchronous data exchange between the client and server.
  • Traverse the entire DOM tree to locate any element.
  • Perform multiple actions on an element with a single line of code.
  • Get or set dimensions of HTML elements with ease.

This list is not exhaustive; you'll explore many other interesting features in upcoming chapters.


Advantages of Utilizing jQuery

If you're unfamiliar with jQuery, you might be curious about what makes it special. Several advantages make jQuery a preferred choice:

  • Save Time: Utilize built-in effects and selectors to save time and focus on other development tasks.
  • Simplify Tasks: jQuery significantly simplifies common JavaScript tasks, enabling the creation of feature-rich and interactive web pages with fewer lines of code, as seen in Ajax implementations.
  • Easy to Use: jQuery is user-friendly. Anyone with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can start development with jQuery.
  • Browser Compatibility: Created with modern browsers in mind, jQuery is compatible with major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.
  • Free to Use: jQuery is completely free to download and use.

Tip: In JavaScript, selecting an element often requires multiple lines of code. jQuery's robust selector mechanism makes traversing the DOM tree and selecting elements easy and efficient for any manipulation.


What You Will Learn

This jQuery tutorial series comprehensively covers jQuery features, including its selector mechanism, event handling system, and effect methods for creating interactive user interface features such as showing and hiding elements and animating elements on a web page.

Later, you'll explore other intriguing jQuery features, such as chaining multiple methods, and performing common DOM manipulation tasks like getting or setting contents and values of an HTML element, adding or removing elements or their attributes, and adjusting CSS properties, width, and height.

Finally, delve into one of jQuery's most powerful features: traversing the DOM tree to get child, parent, and sibling elements, along with features like filtering element selections, implementing Ajax to retrieve information from a server and update page content without refreshing it, and handling conflicts between jQuery and other JavaScript libraries.

Tip: Each chapter in this tutorial contains real-world examples for hands-on practice using an online editor. These examples enhance understanding and include smart workarounds, useful tips, and important notes.