jQuery.ajax()

Perform an asynchronous HTTP (Ajax) request.

jQuery.post()

Send data to the server using a HTTP POST request.

Types

This page documents data types appearing in jQuery function signatures, whether defined by JavaScript itself or further restricted by jQuery. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, jQuery functions require primitive values where applicable, and do not accept their Object-wrapped forms. If you want to study these concepts in depth, take a look at MDN. You should be … Continue reading →

Effects > Custom

.animate()

Perform a custom animation of a set of CSS properties.

CSS | Manipulation > Style Properties

.css()

Get the value of a computed style property for the first element in the set of matched elements or set one or more CSS properties for every matched element.

Traversing > Tree Traversal

.closest()

For each element in the set, get the first element that matches the selector by testing the element itself and traversing up through its ancestors in the DOM tree.

Traversing > Filtering

.is()

Check the current matched set of elements against a selector, element, or jQuery object and return true if at least one of these elements matches the given arguments.

Effects > Custom

.stop()

Stop the currently-running animation on the matched elements.

Events > Event Handler Attachment

.on()

Attach an event handler function for one or more events to the selected elements.

Data | Miscellaneous > Data Storage

.data()

Store arbitrary data associated with the matched elements or return the value at the named data store for the first element in the set of matched elements.

Traversing > Filtering

.filter()

Reduce the set of matched elements to those that match the selector or pass the function’s test.

Ajax > Shorthand Methods

jQuery.get()

Load data from the server using a HTTP GET request.

Effects > Basics

.show()

Display the matched elements.

Miscellaneous > DOM Element Methods

.index()

Search for a given element from among the matched elements.

Ajax > Shorthand Methods

jQuery.getJSON()

Load JSON-encoded data from the server using a GET HTTP request.

Manipulation > DOM Insertion, Inside

.text()

Get the combined text contents of each element in the set of matched elements, including their descendants, or set the text contents of the matched elements.

Core