jQuery.ajax()

Perform an asynchronous HTTP (Ajax) request.

Types

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Events > Event Handler Attachment

.on()

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

Attributes | Forms | Manipulation > General Attributes

.val()

Get the current value of the first element in the set of matched elements or set the value of every matched element.

Core

jQuery()

Return a collection of matched elements either found in the DOM based on passed argument(s) or created by passing an HTML string.

Attributes | Manipulation > General Attributes

.attr()

Get the value of an attribute for the first element in the set of matched elements or set one or more attributes for every matched element.

Attributes | Manipulation > General Attributes

.prop()

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

Effects > Custom

.animate()

Perform a custom animation of a set of CSS properties.

Forms | Ajax > Helper Functions

.serialize()

Encode a set of form elements as a string for submission.

Selectors > Form | Selectors > jQuery Extensions

:selected Selector

Selects all elements that are selected.

Traversing > Miscellaneous Traversing

.add()

Create a new jQuery object with elements added to the set of matched elements.

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.

Selectors > Basic

Multiple Selector (“selector1, selector2, selectorN”)

Selects the combined results of all the specified selectors.

Forms | Ajax > Helper Functions

.serializeArray()

Encode a set of form elements as an array of names and values.

Events > Form Events | Forms

.select()

Bind an event handler to the “select” JavaScript event, or trigger that event on an element.

Traversing > Filtering

.filter()

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

Deferred Object

deferred.promise()

Return a Deferred’s Promise object.

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.

Ajax > Shorthand Methods