jQuery Tutorial #4 - DOM Traversal with jQuery

Lots of jobs require you to be good at DOM traversal. This jQuery tutorial focuses on using jQuery as a DOM traversal library - which is where jQuery really shines. The DOM (Document Object Model) is all of the html elements that get generated when your browser reads the html file. DOM traversal is finding elements or groups of elements and manipulating them to change the state of the web page. You may read job posts looking for a “DOM traversal ninja“, or someone who’s “skilled at advanced DOM traversa