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jQuery

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:46 am
A free and open source JavaScript library that is used by Web developers to navigate HTML documents, handle events, perform animations and add Ajax interactions to Web pages. jQuery was developed by John Resig and is licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License. Some of the many sites using jQuery include Google (code search), Twitter, Dell Inc., CBS News, Slashdot and others.