jQuery and jQuery UI: Visual QuickStart Guide

4. Manipulating DOM Elements

In This Chapter

Inserting Elements

Creating a Lightbox Effect

More Fun with DOM Manipulators

Getting and Setting Measurements

Cloning

Changing an Input Element

Rewind and Review

Adding, changing, and removing elements from your web pages based on user interactions is one of the coolest things you can do with jQuery. The library is deep, with lots of functions you can apply to your web pages to achieve dramatic effects.

In many of the exercises prior to this chapter, you’ve used the css() method to create styles on the fly. In this chapter, you’ll take it a couple of steps further using CSS height, width, and position properties. You’ve also used the html() method to add error messages when form elements were not ...