jQuery is a fast, small, lightweight, cross-platform, and feature-rich JavaScript library. jQuery provides various features that make web development very quick and easy. Some of the basic and unique features of jquery are listed below:
- Very fast and extensible.
- Versatile.
- Small and lightweight.
- Platform-independent.
- Easy to learn; coding style same as JavaScript.
- Provides cross-browser support; does not require extra lines of code, especially for this.
- Provides excellent online API documentation.
- Unobtrusive; support separation between HTML and jQuery code.
- Facilitates minimum possible lines of UI code.
- Improves the performance of any application.
- Write less and Do more; facilitates readable codes with less number of lines as compared to Javascript.
- Simplifies AJAX call and DOM manipulation.
Important features of jQuery library:
- HTML manipulation
- DOM manipulation
- DOM element selection
- Events equivalent to DOM events
- Cross-browser support
- Utilities
- AJAX
- HTML event methods
- CSS manipulation
- Effects and Animations
- JSON Parsing
- Extensibility through plug-ins