Learning jQuery CSS Styles and Dimensions

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CSS is like attr to set and get CSS style properties, but it’s better to change the class with addClass, removeClass and toggleClass instead of changing individual css properties camelCase css properties without quotes or use dashes inside quotes. For example, css({ backgroundColor: “red”, ‘margin-top’: ‘10px” }) Pass in functions to CSS methods to do computation css(‘font-size’, fn); The width and height methods return a number. The offset returns object with top and left properties relative to the document. The position returns relative to its offset parent

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