jQuery tutorial

jQuery is a fast, small, lightweight, cross-platform and feature-rich JavaScript library. jQuery provides various features that makes web development very quick and easy. Some of the basic and unique features of jquery are listed below:

• Very fast and extensible.
• Versatile.
• Small and lightweight.
• Platform-independent.
• Easy to learn; coding style same as JavaScript.
• Provides cross-browser support; do not require extra lines of code especially for this.
• Provides excellent online API documentation.
• Unobtrusive; support separation between HTML and jQuery code.
• Facilitates minimum possible lines UI code.
• Improves the performance of any application.
• Write less and Do more; facilitates readable codes with less number of lines as compared to Javascript.
• Simplifies AJAX call and DOM manipulation.

Important features of jQuery library:

• HTML manipulation
• DOM manipulation
• DOM element selection
• Events equivalent to DOM events
• Cross-browser support
• Utilities
• AJAX
• HTML event methods
• CSS manipulation
• Effects and Animations
• JSON Parsing
• Extensibility through plug-ins

jQuery tutorial