Beginning jQuery: From the Basics of jQuery to Writing your Own Plug-ins

© Jack Franklin, Russ Ferguson 2017

Jack Franklin and Russ Ferguson, Beginning jQuery, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3027-5_2

2. The Basics of jQuery

Jack Franklin¹  and Russ Ferguson²

(1)Aviation House, GDS, 6th Floor Aviation House, London, UK

(2)Apt 129, Ocean, New Jersey, USA

jQuery is a powerful and complex library that was first released in August 2006, although the initial idea came much earlier. Before diving in, there’s time for a very brief history lesson on how the library came to be.

The first time anything posted online that hinted that a potential library was forming was on August 22, 2005. jQuery’s founder, John Resig, posted a blog post titled “Selectors in JavaScript” ( https://johnresig.com/blog/selectors-in-javascript/ ), which ...