10.5 Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the popular jQuery JavaScript library, which simplifies many things, especially with regard to DOM manipulation, event handling, and creating Ajax requests. The following list summarizes the most important aspects:
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jQuery is a library that mainly hides browser-specific details and provides helper methods for recurring tasks that can be used across browsers.
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The linchpin for working with jQuery is the jQuery() or $() method.
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Among other things, you can pass a selector, an existing element, or an HTML string as an argument to this method.
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As a return value, the method provides a wrapper object (jQuery object) that extends the corresponding elements by additional methods (jQuery methods ...
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