What is jQuery?

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https://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_intro.asp

What You Should Already Know

Before you start studying jQuery, you should have a basic knowledge of:

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What is jQuery?

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 of the complicated things from JavaScript, like AJAX calls and DOM manipulation.

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