Sunday, 8 January 2012

jQuery Introduction


The jQuery library can be added to a web page with a single line of markup.

What You Should Already Know

Before you start studying jQuery, you should have a basic knowledge of:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
If you want to study these subjects first, find the tutorials on our Home page.

What is jQuery?

jQuery is a library of JavaScript Functions.
jQuery is a lightweight "write less, do more" JavaScript library.
The jQuery library contains the following features:
  • HTML element selections
  • HTML element manipulation
  • CSS manipulation
  • HTML event functions
  • JavaScript Effects and animations
  • HTML DOM traversal and modification
  • AJAX
  • Utilities

Adding the jQuery Library to Your Pages

The jQuery library is stored as a single JavaScript file, containing all the jQuery methods.
It can be added to a web page with the following mark-up:
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
</head>
Please note that the <script> tag should be inside the page's <head> section.

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