If you’re not familiar with jQuery, you might be wondering what makes jQuery so special. There are several advantages why one should opt for jQuery:

• Save lots of time — You can save lots of time and efforts by using the jQuery inbuilt effects and selectors and concentrate on other development work.
• Simplify common JavaScript tasks — jQuery considerably simplifies the common JavaScript tasks. Now you can easily create feature rich and interactive web pages with fewer lines of codes, a typical example is implementing Ajax to update the content of a page without refreshing it.
• Easy to use — jQuery is very easy to use. Anybody with the basic working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript can start development with jQuery.
• Compatible with browsers — jQuery is created with modern browsers in mind and it is compatible with all major modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.
• Absolutely Free — And the best part is, it is completely free to download and use.

Tip: In JavaScript, you often need to write several lines of code to select an element in an HTML document, but with jQuery robust selector mechanism you can traverse the DOM tree and select elements in an easy and efficient manner to perform any manipulation.

What This Tutorial Covers

This jQuery tutorial series covers all the features of the jQuery, including its selector mechanism, event handling system, as well as, effect methods to create interactive user interface features like showing and hiding elements, animating the elements on a web page, etc.

Later you will see some other interesting features of the jQuery such as chaining multiple methods, as well as how to perform common DOM manipulation task such as get or set contents and values of an HTML element on a web page, add or remove elements or their attributes, get and set CSS properties of an element, get or set width and height of the element, and so on.

Finally, you will explore one of the most powerful features of jQuery that is traversing the DOM tree to get the child, parent and sibling elements, as well as features like filtering element’s selection, implementing Ajax to retrieve the information from a server and update the page content without refreshing it, and how to avoid conflicts between jQuery and other JavaScript library.

Tip: Every chapter in this tutorial contains lots of real-world examples that you can try and test using an online editor. These examples will help you to better understand the concept or topic. It also contains smart workarounds as well as useful tips and important notes.