Chapter 3
Using jQuery
IN THIS CHAPTER
Loading the jQuery library
Using jQuery in your web pages
Finding elements
Replacing data
Changing styles
Adding nodes
Using animation
As you code dynamic web applications using JavaScript, you’ll find yourself using the same statements and features over and over again to create dynamic effects on your web pages. As it turns out, JavaScript developers around the world use the same statements and features to implement the same effects on their web pages, too!
Because of that, lots of work has been done by developers in trying to create a standard JavaScript library of useful functions. Instead of having to write the same JavaScript statements over and over, you just run a simple function from a prebuilt library. That makes life for the JavaScript ...
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