jQuery

jQuery is a JavaScript library created to make it easier and simpler to write JavaScript and HTML. It works on most web browsers and was invented by John Resig. The first release was in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC. Today there is a team of programmers working on jQuery, which is led by Dave Methvin.

jQuery

Original author(s)	John Resig
Developer(s)	jQuery Team
Initial release	August 26, 2006 (2006-08-26)
Stable release	3.2.1 / March 20, 2017 (2017-03-20)
Repository	github.com/jquery/jquery
Written in	JavaScript
Platform	See Browser support
Size	| class="wikitable" style="margin:0;" |- | ver || gzip || prod || dev |- | 1.x || 31 || 90.9 || 266 |- | 2.x || 27.7 || 81.6 || 236 |- | 3.x || 29.9 || 86.3 || 263 |} (KB)
Type	JavaScript library
License	MIT
Website	jquery.com

Today, more than 55% of the 10,000 most-visited websites use jQuery, hence it is the most popular JavaScript library being used today. It is free and open source software and licensed under the MIT License.

jQuery's syntax is designed to make it easier to write complicated JavaScript. Some things that are easier to do using jQuery are:

• navigate (move around) a web page
• select (choose) elements on a web page using the Document Object Model
• create animations
• handle events like user actions
• create Ajax applications.

It also allows programmers to make their own jQuery plug-ins.

Companies like Microsoft and Nokia have said that they are going to include jQuery on their mobile platforms. In addition, Microsoft is including jQuery in its Visual Studio software to use with the ASP.NET AJAX framework and ASP.NET MVC Framework. Nokia has included it in their Web Run-Time widget development platform. jQuery has also been used in MediaWiki since version 1.16.

Release history

Version number	Release date	Additional notes
1.0	August 26, 2006	First stable release
1.0.1	August 31, 2006
1.0.2	October 9, 2006
1.0.3	October 27, 2006
1.0.4	December 12, 2006	Last 1.0 bug fix
1.1	January 14, 2007
1.1.1	January 22, 2007
1.1.2	February 27, 2007
1.1.3	July 1, 2007
1.1.3.1	July 5, 2007
1.1.4	August 24, 2007
1.2	September 10, 2007
1.2.1	September 16, 2007
1.2.2	January 15, 2008
1.2.3	February 8, 2008
1.2.4	May 19, 2008
1.2.5	May 21, 2008	Fix for bad build of 1.2.4
1.2.6	May 24, 2008
1.3	January 14, 2009	Sizzle Selector Engine introduced into core
1.3.1	January 21, 2009
1.3.2	February 20, 2009 Archived August 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
1.4	January 14, 2010
1.4.1	January 25, 2010
1.4.2	February 19, 2010
1.4.3	October 16, 2010
1.4.4	November 11, 2010
1.5	January 31, 2011	Deferred callback management, ajax module rewrite
1.5.1	February 24, 2011
1.5.2	March 31, 2011
1.6	May 3, 2011	Significant performance improvements to the attr() and val() functions
1.6.1	May 12, 2011
1.6.2	June 30, 2011
1.6.3	September 1, 2011
1.6.4	September 12, 2011
1.7	November 3, 2011	New Event APIs: .on() and .off(), while the old APIs are still supported.
1.7.1	November 21, 2011
1.7.2	March 21, 2012
1.8.0	August 9, 2012	Sizzle Selector Engine rewritten, improved animations and $(html, props) flexibility.
1.8.1	August 30, 2012
1.8.2	September 20, 2012
1.8.3	November 13, 2012
1.9.0	early 2013	Removal of deprecated interfaces and code cleanup
2.0.0	early 2013	Dropping IE6-8 support for performance improvements and reduction in filesize

Other websites

• Official website
• Quick API Reference
• jQuery UI
• Dmitri Gaskin (speaker) (2008-04-03). jQuery (YouTube). Google Tech Talks. Retrieved 2009-05-04.