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jQuery Introduction
The purpose of jQuery is to make it easier to use JavaScript on your website.
What You Should Already Know
Before you start studying jQuery, you should have a basic knowledge of:
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
What is jQuery?
JQuery is simple, "write less, do more", the JavaScript library.
The purpose of jQuery is to make it easier to use JavaScript on your website.
JQuery takes on many common tasks that require multiple lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps up the ways you can drive with one line of code.
JQuery also simplifies many complex things from JavaScript, such as AJAX calls and DOM cheats.
The jQuery library contains the following features:
- HTML/DOM manipulation
- CSS manipulation
- HTML event methods
- Effects and animations
- AJAX
- Utilities
Tip: Additionally, jQuery has plugins for almost any existing function.
Why jQuery?
There are many other JavaScript libraries out there, but jQuery is probably the most popular, and most accessible.
Many of the biggest companies on the Web use jQuery, such as:
- Microsoft
- IBM
- Netflix
Will jQuery work on all browsers?
The jQuery team knows all about browser problems, and has written this information in the jQuery library. JQuery will work the same way on all major browsers.