Introduction to jQuery

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library that provides an easy-to-use interface to manipulate web pages dynamically. In this course you will learn how to integrate and use jQuery within a web page and learn how jQuery makes DOM manipulation easy.

Target Audience
Any web developer who has some experience with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.9

Lesson Objectives

Introduction to jQuery

start the course

describe the differences between jQuery and jQuery UI and how they are used to create dynamic web sites

create a web page that includes jQuery and use the console to confirm the library has loaded

recognize how jQuery is referenced, how chaining works, and how to prevent conflicts with $

use the Document Ready event and its shortcut

recognize selectors and how they can be used

bind an event to an element and trigger it

use text(), html(), and val() to retrieve the contents of an element

set the contents of an element using text(), html(), and val()

use css() to get and set one or more CSS properties for an element

insert an element using append(), prepend(), after(), and before()

remove an element and describe the differences between remove() and empty()

select and modify elements by their assigned classes

describe how jQuery can traverse through the DOM to find or select elements

use parent() and children() methods to move up and down the DOM tree

walk the children of an element using siblings(), next(), and prev() methods

filter the returned group of elements using first(), last(), not(), and eq()

create a web page and manipulate elements using jQuery

Course Number:
wd_jqes_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner