I'm a student and I've been studying javascript for the past six months or so. I've learned a lot and I'm really interested in where the language is headed in the future. However, I've noticed that jQuery is... everywhere. I understand its strengths, but it seems to me that once older versions of IE are deprecated and no longer in widespread use, there's really no point in using jQuery.

For instance:

• Browser standardization is becoming ubiquitous. In a few years, support for IE 8 and below will diminish even further.

• The DOM API methods are faster than jQuery and include powerful native functions such as querySelectorAll().

• UI elements and widgets can be added by a variety of javascript libraries, not just jQuery.

• The learning curve for vanilla JS is not that steep.

• The amount of code "saved" by using jQuery methods over vanilla JS is marginal.

All of the problems jQuery set out to solve seem to be working themselves out through the standardization of browsers and implementation of the DOM API.

Why should I learn jQuery?

EDIT: Nice to see my post downvoted to oblivion. For those who gave constructive answers while it was live, thanks.

I've been to this sub twice today. I am going insane. I have had little to no problems with HTML, CSS or JS. I have created my own personal website, but I still consider myself a beginner because things that are "simple" like this still take up 14 hours of my day to barely learn. I'm trying to learn Jquery through thenewboston, but I just can't get anything to happen. I can't hide text, I can't move text. The only way I'm learning anything is through Codeacademy right now, which is frustrating for someone who has an idea of what I'd like to use Jquery for.

Earlier today I couldn't figure out how to reference the library, then someone gave me a link to paste in the body and it worked fine until I shut that window and now, nothing happens, text doesn't disappear. Everything is right, except it's not.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
	

</title>
 </head>
<body>
<p>this is a para</p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="code.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js">          </script>
</body>
</html>

and the js is as follows:

$(document).ready (function() {
$('p').onClick (function() {
	$('p').hide(slow)
});
});

I'd really appreciate any help, again... Sorry guys. I've never been so close to quitting anything in my life.

Just completed my html+css+xml course want to study java script or java query which ever is preferable n easy to understand I'm mainly use Headfirst series books as reference books

I'm trying to create an animation that continuously moves a <div> across the page without requiring any click or hover. Is that possible?

Edit: Sleeping.

So I have, a checkbox: <input id="Option-Projects1" type="checkbox" data-sourcesystem="Projects1" data-propertycode="1Lon01" data-property="600900">

and some js (JQ): $('input:checkbox').change(function () { var propertyCode = $(this).attr('data-propertycode'); var sourceSystem = $(this).attr('data-sourcesystem'); var property = $(this).attr('data-property'); var target = $('#selectResponse'); var selected = $(this).attr('checked'); if(selected == 'undefined') { selected ="notset"; } var string = 'SelectSourceSystemSelection.asp?SourceSystem=' + sourceSystem + '&propertycode='+ propertyCode + '&propertyname='+ property + '&selected='+ selected; target.load(string); });

where it says target.load, if I change this to alert(string); I get the correct string, however, when I view a network trace for the .load i'm seeing this:

Key Value Request GET /SelectSourceSystemSelection.asp?SourceSystem=Projects1&propertycode=1Lon01&propertyname=600900&_=1429612593048 HTTP/1.1

the last part of the string should read &selected=checked (or notset) but i'm getting :

&_=1429612593048

confuzzled!

It says JS runtime error when I try to download the Jquery files? I'm real confused boss

** EDIT **

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Thanks, Jakobud</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Thanks Jakobud!! You solved my issue!!</h1>

<p> I also need my oil changed, if you could help me out with that issue too. </p>

</body>

</html>

Thanks everyone, I'm a little less of an ignorant meathead today because of all of you!

I have a tool that searches a particular website, parses the results, and displays them on the webpage. What I want is the ability for my users to click on a button by the name that is part of each result and for that name to be populated in a form field elsewhere on the page. Ideally it would be something that is depressed when you click it, remains depressed, but you could click it again and it would go back to before and the name would be removed from the field. Does this exist? And if so what is it called?

https://github.com/sleepyhead2gist/fullcalendar_bootstrap_tasklogger

This code uses FullCalendar and Bootstrap modal to log events into the calendar.

I am mostly a Photoshop/CSS person and would like to get better at JS.

This frankenstein-ish code that was cobbled together needs improvement and any input would be appreciated!

Some points that needs improvement in /test/source/javascript/custom.js

• I've read that polluting global scope is bad. Some of my functions are in global scope Ex. validationCheck() . How can I include this function within the calendar scope?

• My code has parts that are duplicated in 2 different functions. How can I consolidate duplicated parts so it can be used in different methods inside the calendar object?

I'm sure there are many others areas to improve so feel free to rip me a new one :)

I have started learning jQuery recently on CodeCademy, and I can't help but wonder why html elements such as <p>, <div>, etc. are referred to in jQuery in quotes:

$("p").doThis();

While certain keywords such as "this" don't need the quotes:

$(this).doThat();

It just feels logical to me that element keywords would go in without quotes, and normal text (a string) that is not an element would go in quotes. Can anyone clear this up for me?