Chapter 9. Beyond the DOM with jQuery utility functions
This chapter covers
- The jQuery properties
- Avoiding conflict between jQuery and other libraries
- Array manipulation functions
- Extending and merging objects
- Parsing different formats
- Dynamically loading new scripts
Up to this point, we’ve spent a number of chapters examining the jQuery methods that operate upon a set of DOM elements selected by using the $() function. But you may recall that way back in chapter 1 we also introduced the concept of utility functions—functions namespaced by jQuery/$ that don’t operate on a jQuery object. These functions could be thought of as top-level functions except that they’re defined on the $ instance rather than window, keeping them out of the ...
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