Conclusion

This lesson described how to create and augment a set of matched elements using HTML fragments to create new elements on the fly. These orphaned elements can be manipulated, along with any other elements in the set, and eventually attached to parts of the page document.

A set of methods to adjust the set in order to refine the contents of the set, either immediately after creation or midway through a set of chained methods, is available. Applying filtering criteria to an existing set can also easily create new jQuery collections.

All in all, jQuery offers a lot of tools to make sure that you can easily and accurately identify the page elements you wish to manipulate.

In this lesson, we covered a lot of ground without really doing anything to the DOM elements of the page. But now that you know how to select the elements that you want to operate upon, you’re ready to start adding life to your pages with the power of the jQuery DOM manipulation methods.