What is jQuery: An Introduction for Beginners

What is jQuery?

The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website.

Lightweight JavaScript Library
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. JQuery will run exactly the same in all major browsers.

Before learning jQuery, you should already know all these basic knowledge of

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
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