Title: Introduction to jQuery - Core Lesson I
Duration: 16:28 min
Description:This is the first of a series of videos on jQuery. jQuery is a rich JavaScript library. It helps
the developer to easily traverse and manipulate the DOM. It alo simplifies creating events and making AJAX calls. In this video, we start by downloading jQuery from http://jquery.com. The current version we are working with is 1.3.2. Then we created a new project using Visual Web Developer and added a reference of the jQuery library to the project. We added an HTML page and dropped a reference of jQuery to the page. We then introduced $(document).ready() and showed how we can dynamically add a div to the body of the page.Play stay tuned as we discuss more jQuery functionalities in the upcoming videos.
Methodology: Using jQuery library.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, jQuery.
Examples constructed: Show how to download jQuery and add a reference to it in the web project. Then create a simple example that shows how to dynamically add a div to the body of the page.
Key words: jQuery, JavaScript, div, $(document).ready(), function, appendTo().