What can you do with jQuery

jQuery makes it easy to write powerful JavaScript apps and create eye-catching animated effects rivalling those of Flash movies. Amongst other things, jQuery is great for:

• DOM manipulation− The jQuery made it easy to select DOM elements, negotiate them and modifying their content by using cross-browser open source selector engine called Sizzle.

• Event handling− The jQuery offers an elegant way to capture a wide variety of events, such as a user clicking on a link, without the need to clutter the HTML code itself with event handlers.

• AJAX Support− The jQuery helps you a lot to develop a responsive and featurerich site using AJAX technology.

• Animations− The jQuery comes with plenty of built-in animation effects which you can use in your websites.

• Lightweight− The jQuery is very lightweight library - about 19KB in size (Minified and gzipped).

• Cross Browser Support− The jQuery has cross-browser support, and works well in IE 6.0+, FF 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome and Opera 9.0+

• Latest Technology− The jQuery supports CSS3 selectors and basic XPath syntax.