## jQuery is a new kind of JavaScript Library.

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

- Lightweight Footprint

  About 31KB in size (Minified and Gzipped)

- CSS3 Compliant

  Supports CSS 1-3 selectors and more!

- Cross-browser

  IE 6.0+, FF 3.6+, Safari 5.0+, Opera, Chrome

## Grab the latest version!

Choose your compression level:
jquery-1.7.2.min.js Production (32KB, Minified and Gzipped) jquery-1.7.2.js Development (247KB, Uncompressed Code)

Current Release: v1.7.2

## Who's using jQuery?

- Google
- Dell
- Bank of America
- Major League Baseball
- Digg
- NBC
- CBS News
- Netflix
- Technorati
- Mozilla
- Wordpress
- Drupal

## Learn jQuery Now!

What does jQuery code look like? Here's the quick and dirty:

    $("p.neat").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");

Run Code

Congratulations! You just ran a snippet of jQuery code. Wasn't that easy? There's lots of example code throughout the documentation on this site. Be sure to give all the code a test run to see what happens.

## jQuery Resources

### Getting Started With jQuery

- How jQuery Works
- Tutorials
- Using jQuery with other libraries
- jQuery Documentation

### Developer Resources

- Mailing List
- Source code / Git
- Plugin Authoring
- Submit a New Bug Report

## Books About jQuery

- ### Learning jQuery Third Edition

  Karl Swedberg and
  Jonathan Chaffer
  Buy Now

- ### jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide

  Dan Wellman
  Buy Now

- ### jQuery Plugin Development Beginner's Guide

  Guilio Bai
  Buy Now

- ### jQuery in Action

  Bear Bibeault
  and Yehuda Katz
  Buy Now

- ### jQuery Enlightenment

  Cody Lindley
  Buy Now