Conclusion

This lesson focused on creating and adjusting sets of elements (referred to in this lesson and beyond as a jQuery collection or set of matched elements) via the many means that jQuery provides for identifying elements on an HTML page.

jQuery provides a versatile and powerful set of selectors, patterned after the selectors of CSS, for identifying elements within a page document in a concise but powerful syntax. These selectors include the CSS3 syntax currently supported by most modern browsers. jQuery not only supports all the CSS selectors but also expands them with its own set of selectors, offering you even more expressive power to collect elements in a web page. As if this wasn’t enough, jQuery is so flexible that it also allows you to create your own filters.

In this lesson we covered all the selectors available in jQuery. In the next lesson we’ll take a look at how to use the $() function to create new HTML elements. You’ll also discover methods that accept a selector as a parameter to perform some operations on a set of matched elements.