On 7/21/07, Mitchell Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe I am getting it. I bet all the luckers are rolling on the floor with laughter at my naivety.
You won't find anyone laughing at you here. Learning is what this community is all about! You are asking some very good questions. I know I'm enjoying the dialog and Glen is doing a excellent job of answering your questions. The 'this' keyword can be pretty confusing at first because the object it represents changes depending on where you are using it. Actually Michael Geary had a very nice post to the list explaining the 'this' keyword a while back. Here is the post: http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/msg/92e29565dff28d32 Glen is correct in advising you to think about the html like a tree ... a DOM tree. jQuery takes a lot of the pain out of navigating around this tree with its selectors and DOM traversal methods. VisualjQuery.com organizes these methods very nicely. Go to http://visualjquery.com/ and then click on 'DOM' then 'Traversal'. Then you will see a listing of jQuery methods that help you navigate through the tree and pick which branches you want to work with. Once you have the elements you want to work with there are lots of methods that allow you to do things such as set attributes, animate and much more. Even better jQuery has loads of plugins that deal with more specialized needs. -- Brandon Aaron
