JQuery

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Overview

A fast and concise, although complete, JavaScript library that simplifies UI handling, events, Ajax and other common dynamic web tasks.

jQuery has a very small footprint when it comes to size (<20kb, using compression) and is supported among many browsers (IE6+,FF2+,Opera,Chrome)

Features

• GUI
  • Floating Dialogs
  • Widgets
  • Animations
  • Drag N Drop
• Client/server communication
  • AJAX (XML HTTP Request)
• Data Exchange, JSON

Examples

A simple example showing a drag and drop feature

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("#draggable").draggable();
    $("#droppable").droppable({
      drop: function() { alert('dropped'); }
    });
  });
</script>  
<div id="droppable">Drop here</div>
<div id="draggable">Drag me</div>

Similar libraries

• Google Web Toolkit
• Dojo Toolkit
• Yahoo UI
• Mochikit Toolkit
• Prototype

Advantages

• Lightweight
• Plugins
• Simple syntax

Disadvantages

• Not as deep and flexible as other libs
• No support for XML/HTML UI design. The code tend to be a bit messy in complex cases.

Reference

API Reference

Download

Download page

Installation

The installation is a simple as putting a couple of files in the right path of the webserver.

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