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Brief Introduction

Due to jQuery’s popularity and ease of use, learning jQuery is a must for all front-end web developers. jQuery makes selecting DOM elements and manipulating them simple by providing a consistent API that works across all browsers. Proficiency in using jQuery is an important skill that can speed up your development time and opens up a world of useful plugins.

Course Summary

Learn how to use jQuery to simplify your web development projects. This course covers the basics of jQuery including event handling, selecting elements, and manipulating the DOM.

Key Learning Points

Understand the basics of jQuery and how it can simplify web development
Learn how to select and manipulate elements using jQuery
Explore jQuery event handling and animation techniques

Learning Outcomes

Understand the basics of jQuery and how it can be used to simplify web development
Learn how to select and manipulate HTML elements using jQuery
Develop an understanding of jQuery event handling and animation techniques

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
Familiarity with JavaScript syntax

Course Difficulty Level

Beginner

Course Format

Self-paced
Online
Interactive

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John Resig
Rebecca Murphey

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Description

Learn how to access and modify the DOM with ease using jQuery!

Requirements

To succeed in this course, we expect you to have some HTML and JavaScript experience. You should at minimum understand loops, functions, and conditional statements (if/else). Udacity’s JavaScript Basics course and HTML/CSS course are good preparation for this course. See the Technology Requirements for using Udacity.

Knowledge

Instructor videosLearn by doing exercisesTaught by industry professionals

Outline

lesson 1 The DOM, $ and Selectors The jQuery object ($). Review of the DOM structure. How to use selectors and filters. lesson 2 DOM Manipulation How to read jQuery documentation. How to modify HTML attributes and content. How to add and remove DOM elements.

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