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Selectors and filters

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- [Instructor] Let's take a quick look at selectors and filters which are one of the basic building blocks of jQuery. Now, here in my Editor, I'm going to open up the select filter underscore intro file. Now, this is not a start building towards finished example, and, in fact, none of the files in this chapter are going to be like that. I'm going to just simply show you some of the various features of jQuery and then for the rest of the course we will examine each one of these areas more in-depth. By the end of this chapter, you should have a basic understanding of what the various features are and what they do. So, I'm going to go ahead and bring this file up in the browser and I'm going to use live preview in brackets, but you can bring it up however you want in your browser, just double clicking it in the OS should be fine. Selectors and filters are used to extract information from web pages. Selectors basically work using a CSS like syntax. You can see here, for example, the…

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