Chapter 20. jQuery
Write less, do more—that's the core promise of jQuery, a free, open source JavaScript library first released in 2006. It has won kudos from web developers on all platforms because of the way it cuts out the pain of client-side coding. It provides an elegant CSS 3–based syntax for traversing your DOM, a fluent API for manipulating and animating DOM elements, and extremely concise wrappers for Ajax calls—all carefully abstracted to eliminate cross-browser differences.
Microsoft has embraced jQuery and integrated it into the MVC Framework. When we looked at unobtrusive client validation and Ajax, it was jQuery that was doing all the hard work behind the scenes.
jQuery is extensible, has a rich ecosystem of free plug-ins, and encourages ...
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