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  • proper noun computing A JavaScript library with predefined functions which simplify many common tasks done with JavaScript and enable them to function regardless of the web browser on which they are executed, using CSS selectors to query HTML elements on a web page and manipulate them.

Etymologies

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j (JavaScript) + Query (because it is mostly used to query the HTML elements on a web page and manipulate them)

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Examples

  • Hope to expand on the debugging techniques I learned from Debugging: The Nine Essential Rules. jQuery Reference Guide ($31). jQuery is the new kid on the JavaScript-framework block, so I'd like to learn more about it.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • Hope to expand on the debugging techniques I learned from Debugging: The Nine Essential Rules. jQuery Reference Guide ($31). jQuery is the new kid on the JavaScript-framework block, so I'd like to learn more about it.

    Programming Books and a $200 Amazon Gift Certificate Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • How do we make Visual Studio play nicer with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, in other words more of the front-end webdev stuff?

    Site Home Katrien DG 2011

  • There are of course ways to decouple the script behavior from the markup, which are usually referred to as jQuery also introduced back in 2005 a way to associate script behavior with the DOM using the same selector syntax that CSS uses.

    Latest Microsoft Blogs 2009

  • Instead, your network will soon use a more modern JavaScript library called jQuery, which is newer, smaller, faster, and generally takes up much less space.

    Ning Blog 2008

  • Instead, your network will soon use a more modern JavaScript library called jQuery, which is newer, smaller, faster, and generally takes up much less space.

    Ning Blog 2008

  • Instead, your network will soon use a more modern JavaScript library called jQuery, which is newer, smaller, faster, and generally takes up much less space.

    Ning Blog 2008

  • I noticed that if I call jQuery (document). ready () on the Ajax-loaded page, the code inside the ready function is completely ignored in Firefox 2. x.

    Klaus Hartl - Stilbüro 2008

  • Instead, your network will soon use a more modern JavaScript library called jQuery, which is newer, smaller, faster, and generally takes up much less space.

    Ning Blog 2008

  • First, my document. ready block (I tend to assume my readers all use jQuery, which isn't fair, so just consider that block as a 'When I'm done, do this' block) and a displayMyClasses function.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend Ray Camden 2010

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