JavaScript / jQuery HTML DOM

jQuery vs JavaScript

jQuery was created by John Resig in 2006. It is designed to handle browser incompatibilities and simplify HTML DOM operations, event handling, animations, and Ajax.

For more than a decade, jQuery has been the most popular JavaScript library in the world.

However, after JavaScript Version 5 (2009), most jQuery utilities can be resolved through a few lines of standard JavaScript:

Delete Element

Delete HTML element:

jQuery

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

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JavaScript

element.parentNode.removeChild(element);

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Get the parent element

Return the parent element of the HTML element:

jQuery

var myParent = myElement.parent();

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JavaScript

var myParent = myElement.parentNode;

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