jQuery Basics
Once you’ve loaded the jQuery library on your page, you can start working with elements. jQuery has a function called jQuery, which lets us fetch elements using CSS selectors and wrap them in jQuery objects so we can manipulate those elements.
There’s a short version of the jQuery function, $();, and that’s what we use in this book. Throughout this book, I refer to this as “the jQuery function.” Here’s how it works:
If you wanted to find the h1 tag on a page, you’d use the following:
| jqueryprimer/simple_selection.html | |
| | $("h1"); |
If you wanted to find all of the <h1> tags on the page, you’d use the exact same thing. If you were looking for all elements with the class of important, you’d do this:
| jqueryprimer/simple_selection.html ... |
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