Using the DOM like a Pro
Jquery was a great way to make traversing and manipulating the DOM a lot easier than it was with vanilla javascript, especially seeing as at the time each browser had their own quirks. Nowadays JS has developed further to provide the same simple hooks that jQuery once afforded us. This tutorial takes you through key tasks like selecting elements, adding elements, moving elements, replacing and removing them (plus a lot more).
When I first started working as a professional web developer back in 2008 I knew some HTML, CSS and PHP. At the same time I was also learning this thing called JavaScript because it allowed me to show and hide elements and do cool things like dropdown menus.
An excerpt from Using the DOM like a Pro
