JQuery basics

In this post I will explain the basics of JQuery, what it is and what it is used for.

JQuery is cross browser javascript library that is easy to learn and easy to use. It has two versions one is for production which is compressed (about 31KB) and other which is not compressed (about 230KB) and is for development. So when developing or learning you should use the development version and when you are publishing some website use the production version.
JQuery is written by several IT proffesionals whose main mission is to make JQuery the best javascript library for web.

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There are several other good javascript libraries like prototype, scriptaculous, Google Web Toolkint, and many others list of js libs. What makes JQuery so popular is that it is cross-browser, CSS3 compliant, easy to learn and to use. It has a wide variety of tools built on it like widgets, interactions, utilities, special effects.
For example implementing simple accordion with text data is no more than writing div tags and importing js files in your html.

I will be writing some tutorials on using JQuery with AJAX, implementing widgets like accordion, slider, progressbar etc. so make sure you have Firefox with firebug installed or maybe Chrome. About IE I haven't used it much so maybe I will make some tut on it in future.