Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies

Chapter 1

Developing Pages Faster with jQuery

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding what jQuery can do for you

Selecting page elements with jQuery

Adding, populating, and removing page elements

Reading and setting HTML attributes

Manipulating CSS properties and classes

jQuery is an amazing tool that’s made JavaScript accessible to developers and designers of all levels of experience.

— SCOTT KOSMAN

An old programming adage tells us that you shouldn’t reinvent the wheel — unless you really want to learn how to make a wheel. That is, there’s nothing wrong with coding something that someone else has already made, because the experience can help give you a deeper understanding of that aspect of programming. That said, most web development projects don’t offer the luxury of limitless hacking time. Quite the opposite, in fact: You almost always have a large amount of code to write and what seems like an impossibly short amount of time in which to write it.

So if someone else has already built ...