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In our previous articles, we discussed about how jQuery AJAX works and also various jQuery global AJAX event handlers available in jQuery. In this article, we’ll focus on accessing an XML document residing at the server, reading and displaying content of the XML using jQuery AJAX. In the following code example, we send an AJAX [...]

We can create great animations using jQuery. jQuery provides various methods to create animation effects in the web pages. We can use standard animation effects those are most frequently used and also we can customize the effects for better visuals. In this article, we’ll discuss about jQuery basic effects. Let’s discuss about three main methods [...]

In the previous article we learned about manipulating CSS class using jQuery. In this article, we discuss about dealing with DOM attributes using jQuery. jQuery provides flexible methods to get or set DOM attributes and values of the matched elements, and to get or set property values of the matched elements and also to get [...]

In the previous article we discussed about manipulating element CSS Classes using jQuery. In this article we’ll explore how to read or manipulate style properties of elements using jQuery methods. The CSS Classes defined using class attribute can be used to control the look and feel of an element. A predefined CSS definition matched with [...]

Each HTML element can have a CSS class attribute which controls the look and feel of the element. The CSS class of an element corresponds to the style sheet definition. Style sheets are managed separately from HTML or any other presentation code for better maintainability. Often need arises to manipulate these class attributes to assign [...]

We discussed about mouse events, keyboard events in previous articles. This article discusses about form events jQuery supports. jQuery has five form events namely blur(), change(), focus(), select() and submit(). These events are triggered when we interact with HTML form elements like moving away from the element or when the element loses its focus, changing [...]

Frequently we may have to add or update content of the HTML elements in the web pages. The data we need to add or edit may come from various sources dynamically. jQuery has number of utility methods to achieve this goal. We can add elements or edit element’s data using jQuery.  For instance, we can [...]

As we already know, AJAX is a technique to update parts of a web page without reloading the entire web page. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and Xml. jQuery supports AJAX functionality through various methods. Using jQuery AJAX methods we can request text, HTML, XML or JSON content from the server. We can send HTTP [...]

We use jQuery selectors to identify, select and manipulate the elements of the HTML document. Using jQuery selectors we can identify an element with its ID and class. Once we identify the element(s) we want, we can read the element’s attributes along with attribute values, apply style sheets, hide or show element content based on [...]

jQuery is a free, open source JavaScript library intended to simplify multi-browser client side scripting. jQuery has very active developer community constantly improving its core and jQuery is the most famous JavaScript library as of today. The current version of jQuery is 1.8. We can use jQuery to manipulate DOM elements, send Ajax request, receive [...]