What is jQuery Really? A Look Under the Hood

What is jQuery Really? jQuery can drastically simplify and alleviate many headaches when working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Taking a little time to understand how a tool works — the mechanism that drives it — is often the difference between having access to a tool and having command over it. To better understand what jQuery is doing under the hood, it is helpful to understand a little bit about the DOM. The DOM (Document Object Model) is a programming interface, built by browsers, which rep