jQuery tutorial for beginners

Before we can do anything, we need to establish our file and link it to our HTML document. First, we will create our plugin file and put it in the directory of our website. It is traditional to start our filename with jQuery, followed by the actual plugin name, so we will call this jquery-hello.

Let us create an index/ file and a folder by the name of js.

jQuery CDN
If you don’t want to download and host jQuery yourself, you can include it from a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
<script src=”https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.0/jquery.min.js”></script>

 jQuery Syntax
Basic syntax is: (selector).action()

1. A sign to define/access jQuery
2. A (selector) to “query (or find)” HTML elements
3. A jQuery action() to be performed on the element(s)

Examples:

(this).hide() – hides the current element.

-(“p”).hide() – hides all <p> elements.
-(“.test”).hide() – hides all elements with class=”test”.
-(“#test”).hide() – hides the element with id=”test”.

jQuery Event

jQuery Events

click()
The function is executed when the user clicks on the HTML element.
The following example says: When a click event fires on a <p> element; hide the current <p> element:

$(“p”).click(function(){
$(this).hide();
});

dblclick()
The dblclick() method attaches an event handler function to an HTML element.
The function is executed when the user double-clicks on the HTML element:

$(“p”).dblclick(function(){
$(this).hide();
});

mouseenter()
The mouseenter() method also attaches an event handler function to an HTML element.
The function is executed when the mouse pointer enters the HTML element:

$(“#p1”).mouseenter(function(){
alert(“You entered p1!”);
});

mouseleave()
The mouseleave() method too attaches an event handler function to an HTML element.
The function is executed when the mouse pointer leaves the HTML element:

$(“#p1”).mouseleave(function(){
alert(“Bye! You now leave p1!”);
});

mousedown()
The event handler attached by mousedown()
is executed, when the left, middle or right mouse button is pressed down, while the mouse is over the HTML element:

$(“#p1”).mousedown(function(){
alert(“Mouse down over p1!”);
});

mouseup()
The event handler attached by mouseup ()
is executed, when the left, middle or right mouse button is pressed down, while the mouse is over the HTML element:

$(“#p1”).mouseup(function(){
alert(“Mouse up over p1!”);
});

hover()
The hover() method takes two functions and is a combination of the mouseenter() and mouseleave() methods.
The first function is executed when the mouse enters the HTML element, and the second function is executed when the mouse leaves the HTML element:

$(“#p1”).hover(function(){
alert(“You entered p1!”);
},
function(){
alert(“Bye! You now leave p1!”);
});

focus()
The focus() method attaches an event handler function to an HTML form field.
The function is executed when the form field gets focus:

$(“input”).focus(function(){
$(this).css(“background-color”, “#cccccc”);
});

blur()
The blur() method too attaches an event handler function to an HTML form field.
The function is executed when the form field loses focus:

$(“input”).blur(function(){
$(this).css(“background-color”, “#ffffff”);
});

On()
The on() method attaches one or more event handlers for the selected elements.
Attach a click event to a <p> element:

$(“p”).on(“click”, function(){
$(this).hide();
});

Attach multiple event handlers to a <p> element:

$(“p”).on(
{ mouseenter: function(){
$(this).css(“background-color”, “lightgray”);
},
mouseleave: function(){
$(this).css(“background-color”, “lightblue”);
},
click: function(){
$(this).css(“background-color”, “yellow”);
}
});