What is jQuery?
jQuery is a lightweight, “write less, do more”, JavaScript library.
The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website.
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.
jQuery also simplifies a lot of the complicated things from JavaScript, like AJAX calls and DOM manipulation.
The jQuery library contains the following features:
- HTML/DOM manipulation
- CSS manipulation
- HTML event methods
- Effects and animations
- AJAX
- Utilities
Tip: In addition, jQuery has plugins for almost any task out there.
Continue Reading: jQuery Tutorial
jQuery Selectors
jQuery selectors allow you to select and manipulate HTML element(s).
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jQuery Events
All the different visitors’ actions that a web page can respond to are called events.
jQuery Effects
The following table lists all the jQuery methods for creating animation effects.
jQuery HTML / CSS
The following table lists all the methods used to manipulate the HTML and CSS.