Main Focus of jQuery?
A jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library. jQuery simplifies HTML document traversing and other operations like Ajax interaction, event handling, and animation. It is designed to write less code by using the chaining method. It has been created by John Resig in 2006 with a nice motto.
Features of JQuery:
DOM manipulation:
The jQuery made it easy to select DOM elements in our web pages.
They can traverse and able to modify the content by using the selectors(Selecting DOM Objects)
Event handling:
In simple, the event handler handles the event raised by the operation performed by the mouse, keyboard, touch, etc.,
In jQuery, it provides an elegant way to perform a wide variety of events using the DOM object like a user clicking on a button, mouse over on the div, etc.,
Lightweight :
JQuery is a very lightweight library. It will size about 19KB in size.
AJAX Support:
It supports/helps to develop a responsive and feature-rich site using AJAX technology. We can implement Ajax calls using jquery in an easier way
Cross Browser: Jquery has support cross-browser support. It will not depend on any particular browsers.
How to Use Jquery in our Project:
We can Implement jQuery in two ways.
Local Installation: we can download the jQuery library and we can include it in our project.
EG: /jquery/jquery-x.x.x.min.js
CDN: Another way we can include the jQuery library into our project is directly from Content Delivery Network (CDN).
EG : <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/x.x.x/jquery.min.js”>