What is jQuery

Question

Want to know how jquery can be used?

Answer 1

Hey,

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library with a nice motto: Write less, do more.

jQuery simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is a JavaScript toolkit designed to simplify various tasks by writing less code. Here is the list of important core features supported by jQuery −

• DOM manipulation − The jQuery made it easy to select DOM elements, negotiate them and modifying their content by using cross-browser open source selector engine called Sizzle.

• Event handling − The jQuery offers an elegant way to capture a wide variety of events, such as a user clicking on a link, without the need to clutter the HTML code itself with event handlers.

• AJAX Support − The jQuery helps you a lot to develop a responsive and featurerich site using AJAX technology.

• Animations − The jQuery comes with plenty of built-in animation effects which you can use in your websites.

• Lightweight − The jQuery is very lightweight library - about 19KB in size.

There are two ways to use jQuery.

• Local Installation − You can download jQuery library on your local machine and include it in your HTML code.

• CDN Based Version − You can include jQuery library into your HTML code directly from Content Delivery Network (CDN).