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 →

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.

Events > Event Handler Attachment

.on()

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

Ajax > Low-Level Interface

jQuery.ajax()

Perform an asynchronous HTTP (Ajax) request.

Deprecated > Deprecated 3.0 | Events > Event Handler Attachment

.bind()

Attach a handler to an event for the elements.

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.

Attributes | Manipulation > Class Attribute | CSS

.removeClass()

Remove a single class, multiple classes, or all classes from each element in the set of matched elements.

Data | Utilities

jQuery.data()

Store arbitrary data associated with the specified element and/or return the value that was set.

Manipulation > DOM Insertion, Outside

.after()

Insert content, specified by the parameter, after each element in the set of matched elements.

Traversing > Filtering | Traversing > Miscellaneous Traversing

.not()

Remove elements from 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.

Traversing > Miscellaneous Traversing