From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
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jQuery
From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
jQuery
- [Instructor] JavaScript has a lot of good points. It's fast, it's powerful, and so on. But the fact of the matter is that it can be a bit confusing at times and debugging it can be a chore. Luckily, we have jQuery. Now according to Wikipedia, jQuery is cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It is free, open-source software, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So in simple terms, what this means is that once you have jQuery connected to your site, you will have a much easier time. jQuery provides a simplified set of terms and syntax, and it adds some built in tools that will save you the time it would take to hand-build them in JavaScript. There are a number of different jQuery libraries, but since 2013, SharePoint has jQuery built in. Let me show you how this works on a page. I'm going to open the developer tools and use the picker to find the element for the site logo on the page. Now I'll double-click that in the code to…
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