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jQuery Pocket Reference
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jQuery Pocket Reference

by David Flanagan
December 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
3h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Queries and Query Results

When you pass a jQuery selector string to $(), it returns a jQuery object that represents the set of matched (or “selected”) elements. jQuery selectors are very much like the CSS selectors you use in stylesheets. For example:

div            // all <div> elements
#surname       // the element with id="surname"
.warning       // all elements with class="warning"

The specific selector syntax supported by jQuery is detailed in jQuery Selectors. Rather than focus on those advanced selector details now, we’re going to first explore what you can do with the results of a query.

The value returned by $() is a jQuery object. jQuery objects are array-like: they have a length property and numeric ...

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