PHP, MySQL, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies

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 ...