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(notes on a session at DrupalCon 2010)

slides at http://tinyurl.com/jQuery-Designers

• jQuery is a selector engine for CSS and XPath (actually, the engine is called Sizzle)
• jQuery is a library for manipulating DOM (the live HTML of the page as understood by the browser)
• demo: hacking the registration form to hide the email field with animation. requires editing theme .info file to load custom .js file
• coolest documentation ever: http://visualjquery.com maybe a little out of date, but still awesome.
• use focus() and other event functions to tie into user actions, for example in a form (examples)
• jQuery UI is not jQuery, but requires jQuery. http://jqueryui.com
• You can (and should) load just the parts you need rather than the whole library.use jquery_ui_add(array())