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What is jQuery?

* If you prefer to see things work, head to the bottom of page 2 in this tutorial to see a demonstration of jQuery’s effects.

If you have yet to hear about jQuery, it is quite possible that your house rivals Australia’s Uluru as the largest single standing rock in the world. Now that you are excited to hear the rock you are living under has broken a record, head over to http://www.jquery.com and download the latest release so you can play with the code as you read through this introduction to jQuery.

jQuery is an extremely lightweight JavaScript framework that makes deploying client side web applications quick and easy. The base package has only what it needs, its huge plug-in repository and spin-off site (jQuery User Interfaces) has everything you would ever want.

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Cliché, cliché, cliché… What old analogy can I use to sum up this little tutorial? I think I’ve decided on one.

Would you wear walking, speak T-shirts or skull around all day? I think not. Actually, I will make a fairly confident statement and say that your eyebrows made a slight movement towards the ceiling while reading those questions, or at the very least you attempted to put on a pair of walking or got up and tried to skull around.

As cryptic as the analogy is, it makes perfect sense for this tutorial. You do not want to mix behaviour with your presentation. You want to wear something designed for the task like a T-Shirt. You do not want your behaviour jumping in amongst your structure either; we do not have a pirouette bone in our body because this behaviour is not part of our structure. Our structure, presentation and behaviour all work together but are separate parts of us as a whole.

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