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Some of the differences between JavaScript and jQuery syntax.
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- Learn more about basic jQuery syntax.
- Interesting side-by-side comparisons of common jQuery/JavaScript tasks.
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You'll see we have a very basic web
page with just a header and a green box.
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For simplicity's sake, I've already
added jQuery to this project and
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hooked it up, so everything's ready to go.
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Open up this js folder here, and
you'll see a blank app.js file.
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This is where we'll do our coding.
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Later in the course I'll show you how
to add jQuery to your projects and
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set up these files on your own.
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Say we wanted to use JavaScript
to make the box disappear.
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First we'd need to select it, so
let's go to the index.html file and
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see what classes or IDs it has on it.
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