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What is jQuery

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 jQuery is a lightweight, "write less, do more", 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 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
Tip: In addition, jQuery has plugins for almost any task out there.

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