What is jQuery?
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The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website.
Lightweight JavaScript Library
JQuery is a fast small, and feature-rich JavaScript library.
It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. JQuery will run exactly the same in all major browsers.
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Before learning jQuery, you should already know all these basic knowledge of
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
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