7 jQuery Selectors Examples for Beginners - Tutorial

jQuery selectors are like CSS Selectors, which allow you to find or select an element from the DOM tree. When HTML pages loaded in a browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer, the browser creates a tree-like structure is known as Document Object Model or DOM. JavaScript and jQuery allow you to play with this DOM i.e. selecting elements from DOM, traversing through DOM, going from one element to another, selecting a list of elements from DOM, adding or removing elements from DOM, etc.