Library

What is jQuery?

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies JavaScript programming. It is a simple, lightweight, and feature-rich library. It provides many built-in functionalities to accomplish various tasks. “write less, do more” library. jQuery simplifies a lot of complicated things from JavaScript.

jQuery Features

There are numerous features jQuery hold which make it very famous. Some of them are listed below.

• DOM Manipulation: jQuery can be used to manipulate DOM elements using its built-in functions.
• DOM Selection: jQuery provides selectors which can be used to retrieve DOM elements. There are several selectors that we can use such as name, id, CSS class, attribute name, etc.
• Cross-browser support: jQuery handles the cross-browser issue. The user does not need to worry about it.
• HTML Event methods: jQuery has events like click, dblclick, blur, mouseenter, etc. which are equivalent to DOM events.
• Ajax: jQuery includes AJAX functions to load data from servers without refreshing.
• Special Effects: Special effects like show, hide, fade-in, fade-out, animations can be applied to DOM elements.

With these features of jQuery, there are so many advantages that can be obtained from jQuery.

Now let us have a look at the advantages that we can gain by using jQuery in our web applications.

Advantages of jQuery

Some of the advantages are,