jQuery API Documentation

Category: Version 1.8

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All the aspects of the API that were added, or had a new signature added, in the corresponding version of jQuery.

API changes in jQuery 1.8.0 dealt primarily with animations and the removal of some methods such as deferred.isResolved(), deferred.isRejected(), $.curCSS(), $.attrFn(), and $(element).closest(Array) returning Array.

For more information, see the Release Notes/Changelog

Also in: Traversing > Miscellaneous Traversing

.addBack()

Add the previous set of elements on the stack to the current set, optionally filtered by a selector.

Also in: Deferred Object | Deprecated > Deprecated 1.8

deferred.pipe()

Utility method to filter and/or chain Deferreds.

Also in: Selectors > Basic Filter | Deprecated > Deprecated 3.4 | Selectors > jQuery Extensions

:eq() Selector

Select the element at index n within the matched set.

Also in: Utilities

jQuery.parseHTML()

Parses a string into an array of DOM nodes.

Also in: Core | Events > Document Loading | Properties > Properties of the Global jQuery Object

jQuery.ready

A Promise-like object (or “thenable”) that resolves when the document is ready.