Introduction
jQuery was first coded by John Resig in January, 2006. jQuery is a powerful, easiest, popular and an open source JavaScript API released in 2006 and it is a JavaScript based library that makes use of JavaScript much easier for web development based applications. jQuery Tutorials chapter gives clear explanation of why to use jQuery and its basic features.
Description
Many JavaScript frameworks exists like Ext JS, Dojo etc.. but jQuery has become the most popular, and is also the most extendable framework.
Suppose to include effects in a website and if not familiar with JavaScript, jQuery can be used which is a reasonably fast loading library.
jQuery is browser compatible whereas JavaScript may not work on all browsers.
Features
- jQuery is fast and it is very ease to use.
- jQuery is small and light weight JavaScript library.
- One can select HTML elements in various ways and style elements dynamically.
- jQuery also takes care of cross browser compatibility issues.
- One have to write so much of code in JavaScript to solve the tasks but that jQuery enables to write less code, do more.
- Web pages and web apps can be made dynamic so much easily with jQuery than with standard JavaScript!
Pre-Requisities
Before learning jQuery , it is better to have knowledge about:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
Key Points
- jQuery is JavaScript Library.
- jQuery is compatible in all browsers unlike JavaScript.
- It is easy, fast and dynamic.