jQuery in Action

Chapter 3. Bringing pages to life with jQuery

This chapter covers:

• Getting and setting element attributes
• Manipulating element class names
• Setting element content
• Dealing with form element values
• Modifying the DOM tree

Remember those days (not all that long ago) when fledgling page authors would try to add pizzazz to their pages with counterproductive abominations such as marquees; blinking text; loud background patterns that interfered with the readability of page text; annoying animated GIFs; and, perhaps worst of all, unsolicited background sounds that would play upon page load (and served to test how fast a user could close down the browser)?

We’ve come a long way since then.

Today’s savvy web developers and designers know better and use ...