Use jQuery Wisely
jQuery is a big library and isn’t always necessary. If you have a page where you only need to locate an element by its ID, stick with
| | navbar = document.getElementById("#navbar"); |
Loading jQuery for one or two things might be overkill. Modern browsers can already do a lot of what jQuery does with methods like document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll, which are used in modern browsers to select elements using CSS selector syntax much like jQuery does:
| | links = document.querySelectorAll("a.popup"); |
Use jQuery when it makes your life easier, but don’t be afraid to leave it out when that makes more sense.
This is only a small sample of what we can do with jQuery. Aside from the document-manipulation features, ...
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