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What Is Jquery?: Example

JQuery is a lightweight "write less, do more" JavaScript library. JQuery library contains the following features: HTML element selections HTML element manipulation CSS manipulation HTML event functions AJAX Utilities.

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What Is Jquery?: Example

JQuery is a lightweight "write less, do more" JavaScript library. JQuery library contains the following features: HTML element selections HTML element manipulation CSS manipulation HTML event functions AJAX Utilities.

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What is jQuery?

jQuery is a library of JavaScript Functions. jQuery is a lightweight "write less, do more" JavaScript library. The jQuery library contains the following features:

HTML element selections HTML element manipulation CSS manipulation HTML event functions JavaScript Effects and animations HTML DOM traversal and modification AJAX Utilities

Adding the jQuery Library to Your Pages


The jQuery library is stored as a single JavaScript file, containing all the jQuery methods. It can be added to a web page with the following mark-up:

<head> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> </head>


Please note that the <script> tag should be inside the page's <head> section.

Basic jQuery Example


The following example demonstrates the jQuery hide() method, hiding all <p> elements in an HTML document.

Example

<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("button").click(function(){ $("p").hide(); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <h2>This is a heading</h2> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> <p>This is another paragraph.</p> <button>Click me</button> </body> </html>

With jQuery you select (query) HTML elements and perform "actions" on them.

jQuery Syntax Examples


$(this).hide() Demonstrates the jQuery hide() method, hiding the current HTML element. $("#test").hide() Demonstrates the jQuery hide() method, hiding the element with id="test". $("p").hide() Demonstrates the jQuery hide() method, hiding all <p> elements. $(".test").hide() Demonstrates the jQuery hide() method, hiding all elements with class="test".

jQuery Syntax
The jQuery syntax is tailor made for selecting HTML elements and perform some action on the element(s). Basic syntax is: $(selector).action()

A dollar sign to define jQuery A (selector) to "query (or find)" HTML elements A jQuery action() to be performed on the element(s)

Examples: $(this).hide() - hides current element $("p").hide() - hides all paragraphs $("p.test").hide() - hides all paragraphs with class="test" $("#test").hide() - hides the element with id="test" jQuery uses a combination of XPath and CSS selector syntax. You will learn more about the selector syntax in the next chapter of this tutorial.

The Document Ready Function


You might have noticed that all jQuery methods, in our examples, are inside a document.ready() function:

$(document).ready(function(){ // jQuery functions go here... });


This is to prevent any jQuery code from running before the document is finished loading (is ready). Here are some examples of actions that can fail if functions are run before the document is fully loaded:

Trying to hide an element that doesn't exist Trying to get the size of an image that is not loaded

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