DOM Traversal Methods

Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Anatomy of a jQuery Script 5
A Dynamic Table of Contents 5
Obtaining jQuery 7
Setting Up the HTML Document 7
Writing the jQuery Code 10
Script Dissection 11
Selector Expressions 11
DOM Traversal Methods 11
DOM Manipulation Methods 12
Event Methods 12
Effect Methods 13
AJAX Methods 13
Miscellaneous Methods 13
Plug-In API 14
Summary 14
Chapter 2: Selector Expressions 17
CSS Selectors 17
Element: T 17
ID: #myid 17
Class: .myclass 18
Descendant: E F 19
Child: E > F 19
Adjacent Sibling: E + F 20
General Sibling: E ~ F 21
Multiple Elements: E,F,G 22
Nth Child (:nth-child(n)) 22
First Child (:first-child) 23