jQuery – Two Intro Video Tutorials

Thanks goes to Saurabh Vyas being a contributing author of this post.

jQuery is the most popular javascript library. jQuery’s syntax is designed to simplify navigating a document, selecting DOM elements, creating animations, handling events, and developing Ajax applications.

Here is an excellent short 18-minute introductory video on jquery. This is a very basic introduction to including jQuery on your web page and getting started writing a few functions:

Intro to jQuery – Part 1

Here is the second introductory video tutorial on jQuery. It is 25 minutes long. This video tutorial explores a simple variable and an IF/ELSE statement. Then it examines the AJAX-y .load() function, the CSS function, and ends up with writing out own custom function:

Intro to jQuery – Part 2