jQuery

JavaScript and HTML can get very complicated, especially to beginners who are trying to create Webpages. Enter jQuery. As it says on jquery.com, “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.” And it does!

jQuery made it very easy for me to create a paragraph that I or visitors can drag anywhere we want in the blog. My paragraph is set up so that once you navigate away from the page or reload, the paragraph goes back to its original location. There is so much you can do with jQuery that you’ll need to set aside some time to really get used to the coding, but once you do, you’ll find that it’s a very powerful tool.

Luckily for me, this is an intro class and I was able to have a teacher show me step by step how to create a basic draggable paragraph. Since I understand the process now, (and I already have the coding added to the default HTML) I should have no problem at least adding that basic feature to my blog when it’s appropriate. You can check out my draggable paragraph here.