jQuery: New Wave Javascript

jQuery is a new type of JavaScript library.

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

"You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM JavaScript. By the time you are done it's down to two or three lines and it couldn't get any shorter unless it read your mind." - Dave Methvin

What does jQuery code look like? The quick and dirty:

$("p.surprise").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");Run �

Congratulations! You just ran a snippet of jQuery code. Wasn't that easy? There's lots of example code throughout the documentation on this site. Be sure to give all the code a test run, to see what happens.

The above code snippet looks for all paragraphs that have a class of 'surprise', adds the class 'ohmy' to them, then slowly reveals them. Click the 'Run' button to see it in action!

Download jQuery

Download jQuery 1.2.3 (15kb, Minified and Gzipped) Great for production use.

Download jQuery 1.2.3 (94kb, Uncompressed) Great for testing, learning and development.

Download jQuery 1.2.3 (29kb, Packed) For those that can't Gzip their JavaScript.

jQuery 1.2.3 Release Notes What was changed in the release.