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jQuery = JavaScript Library

July 10
by briancarter 10. July 2011 09:23

Had a friend, good with JavaScript, ask a jQuery question.  Many are hitting the jQuery books hard with the latest direction of web and Windows 8 development.

Question surrounded the $(‘something’)

Answer: if you see $(‘something’) in JavaScript you should read that as being document.getElementById(‘something’). 

jQuery makes the $(‘something’) work in it’s framework.  Nothing magical, jQuery standardizes this so it works across browsers.

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