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Inserting page content - jQuery Tutorial
From the course: jQuery Essential Training
Inserting page content
- [Narrator] Creating content isn't much good by itself, unless, of course, you can insert it into the document once you've created it. jQuery provides some rich flexibility for inserting content into webpages, and that's what we'll examine in this lesson. There are two ways to insert content into pages. You can insert content inside of other elements, and you can insert content relative to the outside of other elements, and we'll examine both ways. Consider this sample document fragment of a paragraph tag. Let's imagine that we wanted to insert some new content either inside this tag, or before or after this paragraph. The append function allows us to take content and add that content to the inside of the end of the matched elements returned by a jQuery selector expression. In this case the content is a string, but it could also be HTML content, or another jQuery object, or even an array of jQuery objects. This jQuery selector retrieves all paragraph tags and appends the content to…
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