Welcome to jQuery

WELCOME TO jQUERY

jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries in use today because it lets you build JavaScript Web pages and Web applications quickly and easily, accomplishing in a single line of code something that would have required dozens of lines of JavaScript code.

Grab yourself a computer and the handful of tools outlined below, and then dig into the following six chapters.

jQUERY

jQuery, which is free to download and use, comes in the form of a single.js file that you link to from your Web page, and your code accesses the library by calling various jQuery functions. Go to jquery.com and download the jQuery library.

jQUERY UI

Next, you’ll want to download the jQuery UI library from jQueryUI.com. This will ...

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