jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig.
jQuery is free, open source software, dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License, Version 2.
Microsoft and Nokia have announced plans to bundle jQuery on their platforms,[2] Microsoft adopting it initially within Visual Studio[3] for use within Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX framework and ASP.NET MVC Framework whilst Nokia will integrate it into their Web Run-Time platform.
Features
jQuery contains the following features:
- 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
- Utilities - such as browser version and the each function.
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