The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website.<\/p>\n
What You Should Already Know<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Before you start studying jQuery, you should have a basic knowledge of:<\/p>\n
HTML
\nCSS
\nJavaScript
\nIf you want to study these subjects first, find the tutorials on our Home page.<\/p>\nWhat is jQuery?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
jQuery is a lightweight, “write less, do more”, JavaScript library.<\/p>\n
The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website.<\/p>\n
jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps them into methods that you can call with a single line of code.<\/p>\n
jQuery also simplifies a lot of the complicated things from JavaScript, like AJAX calls and DOM manipulation.<\/p>\n
The jQuery library contains the following features:<\/p>\n
HTML\/DOM manipulation
\nCSS manipulation
\nHTML event methods
\nEffects and animations
\nAJAX
\nUtilities
\nTip: In addition, jQuery has plugins for almost any task out there.<\/p>\nWhy jQuery?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There are lots of other JavaScript frameworks out there, but jQuery seems to be the most popular, and also the most extendable.<\/p>\n
Many of the biggest companies on the Web use jQuery, such as:<\/p>\n
\nMicrosoft
\nIBM
\nNetflix<\/p>\nNote: Will jQuery work in all browsers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The jQuery team knows all about cross-browser issues, and they have written this knowledge into the jQuery library. jQuery will run exactly the same in all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 6!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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