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Chapter 1, Getting Started, gets your feet wet with the jQuery JavaScript library. The chapter begins with a description of jQuery and what it can do for you. It then walks you through downloading and setting up the library as well as writing your first script.
Chapter 2, Selecting Elements, teaches you how to use jQuery's selector expressions and DOM-traversal methods to find elements on the page, wherever they may be. You'll use jQuery to apply styling to a diverse set of page elements, sometimes in a way that pure CSS cannot.
Chapter 3, Handling Events, walks you through jQuery's event-handling mechanism to fire off behaviors when browser events occur. You'll see how jQuery makes it easy to attach events to elements ...
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