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jQuery is a JavaScript library that makes it easier to use JavaScript on websites by allowing developers to add functionality with less code. It was introduced in 2006, is open source and free to use, and supports features like HTML/DOM manipulation, CSS manipulation, effects/animations, and AJAX. jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks due to its lightweight nature and ability to accomplish many tasks with fewer lines of code than vanilla JavaScript.

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JAVASCRIPT

jQuery is a JavaScript library that makes it easier to use JavaScript on websites by allowing developers to add functionality with less code. It was introduced in 2006, is open source and free to use, and supports features like HTML/DOM manipulation, CSS manipulation, effects/animations, and AJAX. jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks due to its lightweight nature and ability to accomplish many tasks with fewer lines of code than vanilla JavaScript.

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JAVASCRIPT

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jQUERY
jQuery
•It is a JavaScript library that allows
web developers to add extra
functionality to their websites.
•It is open source , provided for free
and dual-licensed under the MIT
license and GNU General Public
License.
•jQuery was introduced in January 2006 by
John Resig at BarCamp NYC.

It may be used with;


ASP
PHP
JSP
CGI
Servlets
Web programming languages
•jQuery is a lightweight, "write less, do more",
JavaScript library.
•The purpose of jQuery is to make it much
easier to use JavaScript on your website.
•jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that
require many lines of JavaScript code to
accomplish, and wraps them into methods
that you can call with a single line of code.

Tip: jQuery has plugins for almost any task


out there.
The jQuery library contains the following
features:

HTML/DOM manipulation
CSS manipulation
HTML event method
Effects and animations
AJAX
Utilities
There are lots of other JavaScript frameworks
out there, but jQuery seems to be the most
popular, and also the most extendable.

Many of the biggest companies on the Web use


jQuery, such as:
Google
Microsoft
IBM
Netflix

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