Feature Story: The Total Newbie’s Guide to jQuery, Part II: Progressive Enhancement and the DOM

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Earle Castledine
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In Part I, Earle showed us some jQuery basics: how to select the elements on the page we’d like to play with, and how to manipulate their CSS properties. In this second lesson, we’ll move onto manipulating the DOM itself: hiding, revealing, adding, removing, and modifying elements. We’ll also touch on the theory of progressive enhancement and the basics of animation in jQuery. Read more…

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