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Learn more about jQuery and how it's used.
To succeed in this course, be sure you're familiar with basic JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Course prerequisite: JavaScript and the DOM
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jQuery is a widely used JavaScript
library that helps you quickly and
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easily add interactivity to web pages.
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You can certainly add animations,
manipulate elements on a web page, respond
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to user interactions, and make ajax
request with regular JavaScript, however,
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jQuery adds some nice conveniences
that make DOM programming easier.
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jQuery grew incredibly popular because
it addressed many of the headaches
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that came with writing code that would
behave consistently across browsers.
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While this is less necessary as modern
browsers become more standardized,
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jQuery remains a simple, fun, and
intuitive way to interact with web pages.
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Hi, I'm Treasure, a JavaScript
teacher here at Treehouse, and
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I'm excited to share with you
the simplicity that jQuery has to offer.
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In this course, we'll use jQuery to create
or enhance a series of small projects.
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We'll build a simple blog previewer, and
a fun and interactive spoiler revealer.
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We'll finish up by using
more advanced jQuery methods
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to add some enhancements and
functionality to a simple news feed.
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To get the most out of this course, you'll
need to be somewhat familiar with CSS
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selectors using JavaScript to
interact with the DOM, and
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event handling with JavaScript.
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I'll quickly review these
topics as we come across them.
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But if you're not sure what the DOM, or
event handling are, or need a more in
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depth refresher be sure to check out
the pre-requisites for this course.
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I've included links in the teachers notes.
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I'll include helpful resources in the
teacher's notes throughout this course so
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be sure to check those out as well.
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The DOM, or Document Object Model,
is a representation of your webpage.
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Sort of like a blueprint, containing all
of your web page's content and elements.
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You can use JavaScript or jQuery to
access elements on this blueprint and
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tell the browser how those element
should display and behave.
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With jQuery, you use CSS selectors to
select HTML elements on a page and
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do something with them.
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You essentially say, please locate on my
webpage an HTML element or collection
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of elements with the class of x or
the ID of y, and do something with them.
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You can do any of a long list of things
like creating and insert HTML elements,
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remove or hide them, make them grow
bigger or smaller on user click,
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change the font size, texture, or color,
modify HTML attributes, and so on.
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In this course, we'll learn about many
of the convenient methods jQuery offers.
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I'll introduce different CSS
selectors you can use to choose and
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manipulate elements on a webpage.
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We'll learn how to handle events.
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This means running code in
response to button clicks,
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key presses, mouse overs, and so on.
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We'll also learn about DOM traversal,
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how jQuery lets you move easily from
one element on your page to another,
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without having to know
an element's specific class or ID.
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Before we dive into our coding projects,
join me in the upcoming videos to learn
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a bit more about the history of
this wildly popular library, and
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to take a look at how jQuery
differs from plain JavaScript.
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