CHAPTER 34

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Using the jQuery Utility Methods

jQuery includes a number of utility methods that perform advanced operations on jQuery objects or which supplement the JavaScript language to provide features that are usually present in programing languages. You may never need any of these methods, but they are used internally by jQuery, and making them publicly available means that you can save time and effort when you come across an odd problem that the jQuery team has already solved.

Some of these methods are applied to jQuery object and some are called against the main jQuery function, which I have illustrated using the $ notation (described in ...

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