Home
About
Blog
Products
Forum
Support
Contact

Sunbelt Computer Software

PL/B Language Development and Support

Home
About
Blog
Products
Forum
Support
Contact

jQuery Learning Center

jQuery
jQuery UI
jQuery Mobile
Sizzle
QUnit

Plugins
Contribute
- CLA
- Style Guides
- Bug Triage
- Code
- Documentation
- Web Sites
Events
Support
OpenJS Foundation
- Join
- Members
- jQuery Team
- Governance
- Conduct
- Projects

jQuery Learning Center

Home
About
Contributing
Style Guide

Learning Center

Users

There's a lot more to learn about building web sites and applications with jQuery than can fit in API documentation. If you're looking for explanations of the basics, workarounds for common problems, best practices, and how-tos, you're in the right place!

Authors

Too much good information is spread across corners of the web, languishing in blog and forum posts, often just out of reach of people who need it, while the same questionable advice is duplicated across even more questionable sites. Help us stem the tide and educate today's — and tomorrow's — web developers.

Chapters

About jQuery
Using jQuery Core
Events
Effects
Ajax
Plugins
Performance
Code Organization
jQuery UI
jQuery Mobile

Recently Updated

How do I test whether an element has a particular class?
How do I test whether an element exists?
How do I select elements when I already have a DOM element?
How do I select an item using class or ID?
How do I select an element by an ID that has characters used in CSS notation?
How do I replace text from the 3rd element of a list of 10 items?
How do I pull a native DOM element from a jQuery object?
How do I get the text value of a selected option?
How do I disable/enable a form element?
How do I check/uncheck a checkbox input or radio button?

Open Source Content

All of the content in this site is completely open source, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you notice a small improvement that should be made, or want to write entirely new articles, this is one area where feature requests are encouraged!

Open an Issue or Submit a Pull Request

Each of our articles has a link to the raw content on GitHub, and we urge everyone to fork, edit, and help improve this community resource!

Books

Learning jQuery Fourth Edition Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer
jQuery in Action Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz, and Aurelio De Rosa
jQuery Succinctly Cody Lindley

Learning Center
Chat
Twitter
GitHub

Copyright 2026 OpenJS Foundation and jQuery contributors. All rights reserved. See jQuery License for more information. The OpenJS Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of the OpenJS Foundation, please see our Trademark Policy and Trademark List. Trademarks and logos not indicated on the list of OpenJS Foundation trademarks are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them. OpenJS Foundation Terms of Use, Privacy, Code of Conduct, and Cookie Policies also apply.

Web hosting by Digital Ocean | CDN by Fastly | Powered by WordPress

© 2026 Sunbelt Computer Software