What is jQuery
jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library.
The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on your website.
jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps them into methods that you can call with a single line of code.
jQuery also simplifies a lot of the complicated things from JavaScript, like AJAX calls and DOM manipulation.
The jQuery library contains the following features:
- HTML/DOM manipulation
- CSS manipulation
- HTML event methods
- Effects and animations
- AJAX
- Utilities
jQuery Syntax
Basic syntax of JQuery: $(selector).action()
- A $ sign to define/access jQuery
- A (selector) to find HTML elements whole current page
- A jQuery action() to be performed on the element(s) in a page
Example :
$(this).hide() - hides the current element.
$("h1").hide() - hides all elements.
$(".demo").hide() - hides all elements with class="demo".
$("#demo").hide() - hides the element with id="demo".
If work in jquery language you need to write all program insight document.ready example show below
Example :
$(document).ready(function(){
// jQuery all function and methods write here.
});