jQuery and AJAX for Beginners – The Definitive Guide

Websites and HTML5 apps need to be interactive, dynamic, and smooth to the end user.

jQuery



is the world’s most used JavaScript library to create rich web applications that just feel natural to use. In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn how to use jQuery to work with the



DOM



, use events, effects and animations,



AJAX



,



JSON



and create interactive



AJAX forms



.

This course is 100% jQuery 2. x compliant!

This course is taught by



Pablo Farias Navarro



, founder of



ZENVA



and web application developer. Pablo has been using jQuery since 2007. More than 20,000 students are learning how to code with our courses, in particular our Programming for Entrepreneurs course series. This course builds on our previous HTML and JavaScript free courses and takes you to the next step, which is to make your website or HTML5 interactive and dynamic.

Some of the things you will learn in this course:

• When to use jQuery 1. x or 2. x.
• 
  
  CSS selectors
  
  
  
  and
  
  
  
  DOM traversing
  
  
  
  functions in depth to find any element you want.
• DOM manipulation to add or remove custom HTML content anywhere, whenever you decide.
• Working with
  
  
  
  events
  
  
  
  to create interactive sites.
• Listen to changes in select dropdowns and checkboxes.
• jQuery
  
  
  
  animations
  
  
  
  and effects. Slide, fade, show, hide.
• 
  
  AJAX
  
  
  
  to load dynamic HTML from the server.
• Working with
  
  
  
  JSON
  
  
  
  from the server.
• Interactive
  
  
  
  forms
  
  
  
  that display extra fields according to the values of other fields.
• AJAX form submission is the easy way.
• Dealing with
  
  
  
  cache
  
  
  
  issues in AJAX requests.
• Learn jQuery in a 2. x compliant manner.