Code School: Try jQuery
Learn the basics of jQuery, a JavaScript library, to modify elements on a webpage and improve user interaction.
What you'll learn
Learn the basics of jQuery, a JavaScript library, to modify elements on a webpage and improve user interaction.
Table of contents
Course FAQ
jQuery is an open-source JavaScript library meant to simplify JavaScript programming by helping with HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, CSS animation, Ajax, event handling, and more. The jQuery moto is basically "write less, do more" because it allows you to take tasks that usually require several lines of code, and instead accomplish it with just one single line of code.
jQuery is easy to learn! In fact, if you already know JavaScript well, you can probably easily learn jQuery within a matter of hours.
jQuery is still the most popular JS framework, being used on many web pages. It is strongly integrated into WordPress themes and platforms. While Angular, Vue, and React have gained much momementum over the years, jQuery is far from irrelevant.
In this jQuery tutorial you will learn the basics of jQuery so as to modify elements on a webpage and improve user interaction. Some covered topics include:
- An introduction to jQuery
- Searching, Traversing, and manipulating the DOM
- Refactoring using traversing
- Listening to DOM events
- Keyboard events
- Styling and animation with CSS
- Much more
Anyone who wants to learn the jQuery JavaScript library should take this course. If you want to be more efficient with less code, then this jQuery tutorial is perfect for you.
Before taking this course it would be best to have a foundational understanding of the JavaScript programming language itself. If you need a refresher, please check out this beginners JavaScript course.
