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jQuery Introduction

jQuery introduction: Learn, what is jQuery, why jQuery is needed, and real-world usage of jQuery.
Submitted by Pratishtha Saxena, on September 01, 2022

What is jQuery?

jQuery is a JavaScript library used to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, and event handling. It is free, open-source software. It is user-friendly and easy to use.

Why jQuery?

JavaScript has many libraries other than jQuery, but this is the most used and popular among all. jQuery is designed in such a way that it works the same on all the browsers out there.

jQuery can help in HTML-CSS manipulations, HTML events, animations, etc. Apart from this jQuery also contains various plugins to carry out any task easily.

Real-World Usage of jQuery

Lately, JavaScript has been in great demand in web applications and hence so is jQuery. All the big brands use JavaScript and jQuery on the web:

Google
Microsoft
Amazon
Netflix
Zomato
IBM
Byjus, etc.

Hence, there is a lot of scope in learning jQuery in today’s world. But it should only proceed when you already have an idea and basic knowledge of using HTML-CSS, JavaScript, and how they all work together on a web application.

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