Friday 2 November 2012

Introduction to jQuery


Developing a web site requires updating skills and use of new tools. While developing dynamic web pages, it is also mandatory to consider size. jQuery is a library and is open source library. It allows adding advancement in pages with help Java. This library was thought of due to popularity of Java Scripts. Though the scripting language was popular, it had some shortcomings. It was very basic language and has no features offering advance modification and any special effects. It was also incapable of animation. Cross browser incompatibilities was main issue that was faced using Java Scripts. All these problems needed solution and hence jQuery came into picture.

jQuery provides easy solution for every issues faced with Java Scripts. It has also maintained the benefits of scripting language by offering light weight libraries. The library strengthens the scripting language by making it cross browser compatible. It also offers advancement to the basic language. There are many components available for modifications in this library. It is compatible with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). It simplifies the client-side scripting.

It is very easy to install and use jQuery. All that is needed is to download the library package and import it in web page code. There are two versions of library package available minified version also known as min and development version. It is small yet efficient and development version makes it easy to read and debug. Following is the one method of importing library.
<script type="text/javascript" src="jQuery-1.4.1-min.js"></script>
This will upload the min version library package and is ready to use.

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