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Do I need jQuery to easyly select my elements - It works without it

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Hi,

 

I was under the impression that for convenience when selecting elements you could use jQuery. In other words by using jQuery you could select your elements like this ...

TweenLite.from(".some-class", 1, {scale:2.0});

instead of ...

var myClass = document.getElementById(".some-class");
TweenLite.from(myClass, 1, {scale:2.0});

The reason for my question is because I just tried selecting my elements like ".class-name" and it worked without having jQuery linked.

 

See my Codepen.

 

See the Pen gdbkr by fs_tigre (@fs_tigre) on CodePen

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Hello fs_tigre, and welcome to th GreenSock forum!

 

Yes you are correct.. starting with GSAP version 1.13.1 .. you now use any CSS selector inside the target  parameter of your tween.

 

The below taken from this page: http://greensock.com/gsap-1-13-1

 

Save kb by skipping jQuery. Default selector: document.querySelectorAll()

 

Probably the most common reason that developers load jQuery is to leverage it as a selector engine but all modern browsers support document.querySelectorAll(), so as of version 1.13.1, GSAP uses that as a fallback (after attempting to detect a selector engine like jQuery). That means that you can do something like this, for example:

// Without loading jQuery
TweenLite.to("li:first-child, li:last-child", 1, {opacity:0.5});

:

Just make sure you are using GSAP 1.13.1 or higher to take advantage it.

 

Hope this helps! :)

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