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jQuery Basics

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What is jQuery?

3:10 with Treasure Porth

Learn more about jQuery and how it's used.

To succeed in this course, be sure you're familiar with basic JavaScript, HTML and CSS

Course prerequisite: JavaScript and the DOM

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    easily add interactivity to web pages. 0:00
    You can certainly add animations, manipulate elements on a web page, respond 0:02
    to user interactions, and make ajax request with regular JavaScript, however, 0:07
    jQuery adds some nice conveniences that make DOM programming easier. 0:12
    jQuery grew incredibly popular because it addressed many of the headaches 0:17
    that came with writing code that would behave consistently across browsers. 0:21
    While this is less necessary as modern browsers become more standardized, 0:26

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