Friday, March 11, 2011

About JQuery

Today's World Wide Web is a dynamic environment, and its users set a high bar for both style and function of sites. To build interesting, interactive sites, developers are turning to JavaScript libraries such as JQuery to automate common tasks and simplify complicated ones.

jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML jQuery is free, open source software, dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License. There are lot of web site over the world use it.

The reason which make JQuery very popular:

* DOM element selections using the cross-browser open source selector engine Sizzle, a spin-off out of the jQuery project
* DOM traversal and modification (including support for CSS 1-3)
* Events
* CSS manipulation
* Effects and animations
* Ajax
* Extensibility through plug-ins
* Utilities - such as browser version and the each function.
* Cross-browser support


Download Site: http://www.jquery.org