cycling jQuery_Succinctly

Using the is() method to return a Boolean value .................................................................. 35 You can pass jQuery more than one selector expression ....................................................... 36 Checking wrapper set .length to determine selection .......................................................... 36 Creating custom filters for selecting elements ......................................................................... 37 Differences between filtering by numeric order vs. DOM relationships ................................... 38 Selecting elements by id when the value contains meta-characters ...................................... 41 Stacking selector filters ............................................................................................................ 42 Nesting selector filters ............................................................................................................. 43 Grokking the :nth-child() filter ............................................................................................ 44 Selecting elements by searching attribute values using regular expressions .......................... 45 Difference between selecting direct children vs. all descendants ............................................ 46 Selecting direct child elements when a context is already set ................................................. 46 Chapter 3 Traversing ............................................................................................................ 48 Difference between find() and filter() methods .............................................................. 48 Passing filter() a function instead of an expression ........................................................... 49 Traversing up the DOM ........................................................................................................... 51 Traversing methods accept CSS expressions as optional arguments .................................... 52 Chapter 4 Manipulation ........................................................................................................ 53 Creating, operating, and adding HTML on the fly .................................................................... 53 Grokking the index() method ................................................................................................. 54 Grokking the text() method .................................................................................................. 56 Update or remove characters using a regular expression ....................................................... 56 Grokking the .contents() method ......................................................................................... 57 Using remove() does not remove elements from wrapper set ............................................... 58 Chapter 5 HTML Forms ........................................................................................................ 59 Disable/enable form elements ................................................................................................. 59 How to determine if a form element is disabled or enabled ..................................................... 60 Selecting/clearing a single check box or radio button .............................................................. 60 Selecting/clearing multiple check boxes or radio button inputs ............................................... 61 Determining if a check box or radio button is selected or cleared ........................................... 62 How to determine if a form element is hidden ......................................................................... 62 Setting/getting the value of an input element ........................................................................... 63 Setting/getting the selected option of a select element ........................................................... 64 Setting/getting selected options of a multi-select element ....................................................... 64 Setting/getting text contained within a

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