jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.
- DOM manipulation: The jQuery made it easy to select DOM elements, traverse them and modifying their content by using cross-browser open source selector engine calledSizzle.
- 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 feature-rich 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 ( Minified and gzipped ).
- Cross Browser Support: The jQuery has cross-browser support, and works well in IE 6.0+, FF 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome and Opera 9.0+
- Latest Technology: The jQuery supports CSS3 selectors and basic XPath syntax.
How to install jQuery ?
This is very simple to do require setup to use jQuery library. You have to carry two simple steps:
- Go to the download page to grab the latest version available.
- Now put downloaded jquery-1.3.2.min.js file in a directory of your website, e.g. /jquery.
The jQuery does not require any special installation and very similar to JavaScript, we do not need any compilation or build phase to use jQuery.
