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How jQuery selects elements using CSS?
jQuery uses CSS selector to select elements using CSS. Let us see an example to return a style property on the first matched element. The css( name ) method returns a style property on the first matched element.
Here is the description of all parameter used by this method −
- name − The name of the property to access.
Example
You can try to run the following code to learn how jQuery selects elements with CSS:
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery Example</title>
<script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("div").click(function () {
var color = $(this).css("background-color");
$("#result").html("That div is <span style = 'color:" +
color + ";'>" + color + "</span>.");
});
});
</script>
<style>
div { width:60px; height:60px; margin:5px; float:left; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click on any square:</p>
<span id = "result"> </span>
<div style = "background-color:blue;"></div>
<div style = "background-color:gray;"></div>
<div style = "background-color:#123456;"></div>
<div style = "background-color:#f11;"></div>
</body>
</html>
Updated on: 17-Dec-2019
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