Vidushi Tomar

How to check the current selection against an expression using jQuery?

Vidushi Tomar

Updated on 24-Mar-2023 333 Views

Overview jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It helps in DOM manipulation, event handling, animation, CSS and Ajax. To achieve the requirement we’ll use the “is(selector)” method of jQuery. is(selector) This method checks the currently selected elements against an expression/selector and returns true if any one of the selected elements matches with the selector. In the below code, we have created a container with the class “test”. We want to change the background color of the container when it is clicked. So, “test” which is the class name of the container will be used as a selector ...