jQuery is a new kind of JavaScript Library.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
- Lightweight Footprint
About 24KB in size (Minified and Gzipped)
- CSS3 Compliant
Supports CSS 1-3 selectors and more!
- Cross-browser
IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.0+, Chrome
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Who's using jQuery?
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What does jQuery code look like? Here's the quick and dirty:
$("p.neat").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");Congratulations! You just ran a snippet of jQuery code. Wasn't that easy? There's lots of example code throughout the documentation on this site. Be sure to give all the code a test run to see what happens.
