Easy jQuery

Blog about jQuery - next generation JavaScript library.

Sep
20

What is jQuery?

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jQuery it is a JavaScript library, which has been developed in January 2006. There is a slogan on developers website - “jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript”. These words are completely true. Using this library has a lot of advantages:

  • easy and elegant access to the your document’s objects (DOM) and manipulating them using selectors;
  • making chains from methods;
  • friendly event handling and binding;
  • built-in animation features, allowing make your web-page more dynamical without huge volume of code;
  • clear interface for working with AJAX;
  • well-made documentation with a lot of examples;
  • finally – hundreds plug-ins, allowing quickly to solve everyday’s tasks of JavaScript programming.

I think that programming with jQuery is make you work really pleasant. As for me as a developer this library save me a lot of time, allowing concentrate on global tasks but not on details. I have made my blog for telling about this library, about different methods of solving widespread tasks appearing during web programming and about how such a boring task as a creating user interface can enjoy yourself. I’m also planning to review some useful plug-ins too. In the next post I’ll tell you about such a great jQuery tool as “selectors”.