Random Thoughts

This is more for my reference and hopefully helps others working with JQuery.

1. Getting and Setting the innerHTML of an element

   	
   		var content = $("#id").html();
   		$("#id").html("Some HTML");		
      

2. Getting and Setting the text (with out any HTML) of an element

   		
   		var txt = $("#id").text();			
   		$("#id").text("Some Text");		
   	

3. Removing content from an element

   		
   		$("#id").empty();		
   	

4. Getting and Setting style properties

   			
   		var displayValue = $("#id").css("display");
   		
   		$("#id").css("display", "block");
   	

5. Hiding and Displaying elements

   	
   		// Toggles an element's visibility
   		$("#id").toggle();
   				
   		$("#id").hide();
   		
   		// Sets the display style property to block and not inline
   		$("#id").show();		
   	

6. Registering to events such as keyup

   		$("#id").keyup(function(){
   			alert($(this).val());
   		});
   	

7. Dealing with CSS classes

   		// Adds the specified class to the element
   		$("#id").addClass("showme");
   		
   		// Multiple classes should be separated by spaces
   		$("#id").addClass("showme1 showme2");
   				
   		// Removes the specified class
   		$("#id").removeClass("hideme");
   		
   		// Multiple classes should be separated by spaces
   		$("#id").removeClass("hideme1 hideme2");
   		
   		// Removes all the classes
   		$("#id").removeClass();
   	

8. Getting and Setting values of form elements

   		// For input boxes
   		$("#inputbox").val(); // Returns the text box value
   		$("#inputbox").val("set some value");
   		
   		// For select boxes
   		$("#selectbox").val(); // Returns the selected value 
   		// To get the text of the selected option
   		$("#selectbox :selected").text();
   		
   		// Programatically selects a value or multiple values
   		$("#singleselect").val("123");
   		$("#multipleselect").val(["12", "234"]);
   
   		// For checkboxes and radio buttons
   		$("#chkId").val();  // Returns value whether the check box is checked or not
   		// Returns true when the check box is checked
   		$("#chkId").attr("checked"); 		
   		
   		// Programatically checks the check box
   		$("#chkId").attr("checked", "checked");