... built into core jQuery, let’s investigate writing our own! 5 .3 Creating custom animationsThe number of core effects supplied with jQuery is purposefully kept small (in order to keep jQuery s ... basic.6 .3. 1 Trimming stringsAlmost inexplicably, the JavaScript String implementation doesn’t possess a method to remove whitespace characters from the beginning and end of a string instance. ... </body></html> In this document, we import jQuery, which (as we know) defines the global names jQuery and its alias $. We then redefine the global $ name to a string value b, overriding the jQuery...