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How are selectors used in the jquery library?


Asked by Isaac Gilmore on Dec 06, 2021 jQuery



jQuery selectors are one of the most important parts of the jQuery library. jQuery selectors allow you to select and manipulate HTML element(s). jQuery selectors are used to "find" (or select) HTML elements based on their name, id, classes, types, attributes, values of attributes and much more.
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When you want to select or manipulate one or more than one HTML element, jQuery selectors are used. It lets you find out matching elements from DOM using expressions. It is interesting to note that jQuery selectors are linked to CSS selectors. There are multiple selectors based on element, id, class, types, attributes, and many more.
Likewise, Let's see commonly used selectors in jQuery. The most common selector pattern is element name. Specifing an element name as string e.g. $ ('p') will return an array of all the <p> elements in a webpage. The following figure shows which DOM elements will be returned from $ ('p') & $' (div').
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You can select all <p> elements on a page like this: When a user clicks on a button, all <p> elements will be hidden: The jQuery # id selector uses the id attribute of an HTML tag to find the specific element. An id should be unique within a page, so you should use the #id selector when you want to find a single, unique element.
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If you want to select elements with a certain class, use a dot (.) and the class name. If you want to select elements with a certain ID, use the hash symbol (#) and the ID name. Note that HTML is not case-sensitive, therefore it is best practice to keep HTML markup and CSS selectors lowercase.