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jQuery Crash Course: Learn the Essentials of jQuery Fast
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(1,772 ratings)
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jQuery Crash Course: Learn the Essentials of jQuery Fast

Learn the essentials you'll need to get started with jQuery.
Created bySimon Sez IT
Last updated 12/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand the basics of the jQuery syntax.
  • Know how to set and retrieve values.
  • Use jQuery effects to apply special effects to web pages
  • Work with jQuery to traverse and filter the DOM.
  • Understand how to use jQuery selectors.
  • How to use Google Chrome as a browse-based development tool.
  • How to combine jQuery events with jQuery selectors.
  • Know how to capture a mouse event.
  • Discover how to record user events that occur on the user’s browser window, a great way to discover usability issues.
  • Using jQuery UI, another framework built on JavaScript and jQuery, allowing you to develop rich interface features. This allows you to build a lot of functionality with a small amount of code.
  • Understand jQuery UI elements, dialog features, a date picker, and special effects.
  • Learn some of the more popular jQuery plugins you can use to expand the functionality of jQuery and reduce the code needed to create.

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Course content

4 sections • 20 lectures • 2h 23m total length

  • Hello World Example10:13

    Explore the essentials of jQuery with a Hello World example, using document ready, the id selector, and append to show current time and date in the page.

  • WATCH ME: Essential Information for a Successful Training Experience2:04

    Watch this essential information to maximize your jQuery crash course, including downloadable instructor files and steps to unzip them, plus guidance on video-based delivery, high-definition viewing, and adjustable speed.

  • DOWNLOAD ME: Course Demo Files0:22
  • Setting Values with Text HTML8:00

    Learn jQuery selectors and content manipulation by building a page, using the $ shorthand and document ready to target elements by type, class, and id, then update text or HTML.

  • Getting Values with Text HTML4:20

    Learn to use jQuery's html and text functions to render HTML as HTML or as plain text, update a pre tag, and handle escaped versus rendered tags.

  • Selectors7:55

    Explore jQuery selectors and their alignment with CSS selectors, including CSS3 and DOM. Learn to target groups, use first and last selectors, and understand zero-based indexing.

  • Events6:03

    Learn how to bind jQuery events to user actions like click and blur, manipulate the DOM with document.ready, and use closures to track counts across clicks.

  • Showing and Hiding Effects7:00

    Explore jQuery effects, including hide and show, by clicking shapes labeled with the shape class, manipulating display none and animated show with duration and linear easing.

  • Combining Events with Selectors9:54

    Learn to build a dynamic jQuery shape drawer by combining events with selectors, selecting shapes and colors, and appending styled outputs to the page.

  • Traversing and Filtering10:04

    Learn to traverse and filter the dom with jQuery by selecting checkboxes, handling change events, and updating an output area with copied labels using next, clone, and append.

Requirements

  • Prerequisites include a foundation of creating basic websites, an understanding of HTML/CSS familiarity, and basic web concepts.

Description

Learn the essentials you'll need to get started with jQuery, the most popular JavaScript library in use today.

During this two-hour crash course, your instructor will introduce you to the basics of the jQuery syntax.

Learn about jQuery selectors, one of the most important parts of the jQuery library, and how to manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM). Discover how jQuery events can be used to register behaviors that take effect when the user interacts with the web browser.

You will also learn how to use jQuery to traverse and filter the DOM, which is used to help find HTML elements.

Learn advanced topics, including how to capture mouse events using the jQuery UI framework and some of the popular jQuery plugins used to extend the power of jQuery.

By the end of this course, you will be confident in your knowledge of the fundamentals needed to effectively use jQuery.

This course includes:

  • Demo files
  • An optional quiz to test what you've learned
  • Certificate of completion

All of our videos are high-definition videos, therefore, they are best viewed with the HD setting on, and the videos enlarged.

What People Are Saying:

★★★★★ “This course is very good. the explanation is very clear and easy to understand” –Justin Rogers

★★★★★ “Very easy to follow course, extremely informative, very well done. Thank you so much!” -Mike Webster

★★★★★ “Excellent accelerated intro to jQuery. Clearly spoken and the videos are crisp and easily viewed.” -Leslie Milburn

★★★★★ “Instructor did a fantastic job explaining what we were doing. This course is one of the best on the subject that I've done. I especially appreciate the project based approach of learning jQuery, but the instructor does a good job walking us through the HTML, CSS, and jQuery of building these examples. I'd definitely take more Simon Sez IT courses from this teacher.” -Daniel Maldonado

Who this course is for:

  • Web masters or web designers who need to improve their development skills.

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