jQuery Selectors

Overview

jQuery selectors are one of the most important aspects of the jQuery library. These selectors use familiar CSS syntax to allow page authors to quickly and easily identify any set of page elements to operate upon with the jQuery library methods. Understanding jQuery selectors is the key to using the jQuery library most effectively. This reference card puts the power of jQuery selectors at your very fingertips.

About the Author

Bear Bibeault has been writing software for over three decades, starting with a Tic-Tac-Toe program written on a Control Data Cyber supercomputer via a 100-baud teletype. He is a Software Architect and Technical Manager for a company that builds and maintains a large financial web application used by the accountants that many of the Fortune 500 companies keep in their dungeons. He also serves as a “sheriff” at the popular JavaRanch.com.

Publications

jQuery in Action

Ajax in Practice

Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action

Notable Projects: “Sheriff” at JavaRanch.com, FrontMan Web Application Controller

Yehuda Katz has been involved in a number of open-source projects over the past several years. In addition to being a core team member of the jQuery project, he is also a core member of Merb, an alternative to Ruby on Rails (also written in Ruby). He will be speaking about jQuery and Ruby at a number of regional conferences this year, and is the JavaScript expert on the Merb team. He recently joined EngineYard working on the Merb project full-time.

Publication

jQuery in Action

Notable Projects

• Visual jQuery.com
• jQuery Plugin Coordinator
• Merb
• DataMapper ORM

Web site

www.yehudakatz.com