jQuery Introduction

The main objective of jQuery is to make it much easier and portable to use

JavaScript on your website.

Before going to learn jQuery, you should have some basic knowledge of:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

If you want to know these points first, find these tutorials on our home page.

What is jQuery?

• jQuery is a fast, lightweight, write less do more and feature-rich JavaScript library.
• It's easy-to-use APIs makes the things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, adding animation effects.
• The main objective of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on our application.
• jQuery also gives you the ability to create an Ajax based application in a quick and simple way.
• Many companies like Google,Microsoft and IBM are using the jQuery for their applications.

jQuery is the most popular, widely used and the most extendable for web

application. There are many big companies use jQuery on the Web, like:

• Google
• IBM
• Netflix