jQuery

Welcome.

What's is jQuery?

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 is a JavaScript Library.

jQuery greatly simplifies JavaScript programming.

jQuery is easy to learn.

What You Should Already Know

Before you start studying jQuery, you should have a basic knowledge of:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

Downloading jQuery

There are two versions of jQuery available for downloading:

• Production version - this is for your live website because it has been minified and compressed
• Development version - this is for testing and development (uncompressed and readable code)