What Is jQuery?
jQuery is an extremely fast, lightweight JavaScript library that simplifies many aspects of client-side web development. You can use jQuery for almost any client-side functionality that you can think of—event handling, animations, drag-and-drop functionality, asynchronous web service calls, and much more. Furthermore, jQuery supports a robust plug-in model that enables developers to write their own extensions to implement whatever functionality they want. There are already hundreds of powerful jQuery plug-ins available.
jQuery is CSS3-compliant and works on almost all browsers—Internet Explorer 6.0+, FireFox 2+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.0, and Google Chrome. This means that you can write one set of code and not have to worry about ...
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