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JavaScript jQuery Basics Working with jQuery Collections Stopping the Browser's Default Behavior

Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points
Posted by Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points

General Jquery Question

So correct me if im wrong, but from what I understand appending something to the DOM should be used whenever something is interactive on a site using Jquery/Javascript? So that when we dont have Jquery/Javascript available the site the interactive feature doesnt show?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,274 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,274 Points

Depending on the site's purpose, you may not need to completely conceal the missing feature, but you'd want to construct the page so that if script execution was disabled, the page would still make sense.

If the missing element was of significant value to the page you might want to display something like a "Please enable JavaScript to see this page's full content" message.

Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points
Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points

Thank you, I just wanted to make sure that my understanding was along the right lines. This helped.