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what is the application of jquery

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written JavaScript code. As quoted on official jQuery website, "it is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development".

What is jQuery?

jQuery is not a language, but it is a well written JavaScript code. As quoted on official jQuery website, "it is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development."

In order to work with jQuery, you should be aware of the basics of JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig.

Licensing

It is free, open source software Dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License. Microsoft has integrated jQuery officially into its IDE Visual Studio 2010 and jQuery intellisense is available in Visual Studio 2010 now.

This is the first chapter of my jQuery ebook. This ebook comes with easy to navigate demo app with source code and video tutorials.

Why jQuery?

jQuery is very compact and well written JavaScript code that increases the productivity of the developer by enabling them to achieve critical UI functionality by writing very small amount of code.

It helps to improve the performance of the applicationIt helps to develop most browser compatible web pageIt helps to implement UI related critical functionality without writing hundreds of lines of codesIt is fastIt is extensible – jQuery can be extended to implement customized behavior

Other advantages of jQuery are:

No need to learn fresh new syntaxes to use jQuery, knowing simple JavaScript syntax is enoughSimple and cleaner code, no need to write several lines of codes to achieve complex functionality