Q1. What is jQuery?

Ans: jQuery is fast, lightweight and feature-rich client side JavaScript Library/Framework which helps in to traverse HTML DOM, make animations, add Ajax interaction, manipulate the page content, change the style and provide cool UI effect. It is one of the most popular client side library and as per a survey it runs on every second website. 

Q2. Why do we use jQuery?

Ans: Due to following advantages. 

• Easy to use and learn.

• Easily expandable.

• Cross-browser support (IE 6.0+, FF 1.5+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+)

• Easy to use for DOM manipulation and traversal.

• Large pool of built in methods.

• AJAX Capabilities.

• Methods for changing or applying CSS, creating animations.

• Event detection and handling.

• Tons of plug-ins for all kind of needs.

Q3. How JavaScript and jQuery are different?

Ans: JavaScript is a language While jQuery is a library built in the JavaScript language that helps to use the JavaScript language. 

Q4. Is jQuery replacement of Java Script?

Ans: No. jQuery is not a replacement of JavaScript. jQuery is a different library which is written on top of JavaScript. jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. 

Q5. Is jQuery a library for client scripting or server scripting?

Ans. Client side scripting.

Q6. Is jQuery a W3C standard?

Ans: No. jQuery is not a W3C standard.

Q7. What is the basic need to start with jQuery?

Ans: To start with jQuery, one need to make reference of it's library.

Q8. Which is the starting point of code execution in jQuery?

Ans: The starting point of jQuery code execution is $(document).ready() function which is executed when DOM is loaded. 

Q9. What does dollar sign ($) means in jQuery?

Ans: Dollar Sign is nothing but it's an alias for JQuery. Take a look at below jQuery code. 

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$(document).ready(function(){

});

Over here $ sign can be replaced with "jQuery" keyword. 

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jQuery(document).ready(function(){

});

Q10. Can we have multiple document.ready() function on the same page?

Ans: YES. We can have any number of document.ready() function on the same page.

Q11. Can we use our own specific character in the place of $ sign in jQuery?

Ans: Yes. It is possible using jQuery.noConflict().

Q12. Is it possible to use other client side libraries like MooTools, Prototype along with jQuery?

Ans: Yes.

Q13. What is jQuery.noConflict?

Ans: As other client side libraries like MooTools, Prototype can be used with jQuery and they also use $() as their global function and to define variables. This situation creates conflict as $() is used by jQuery and other library as their global function. To overcome from such situations, jQuery has introduced jQuery.noConflict(). 

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jQuery.noConflict();

// Use jQuery via jQuery(...)

jQuery(document).ready(function(){

jQuery("div").hide();

}); 

You can also use your own specific character in the place of $ sign in jQuery. 

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var $j = jQuery.noConflict();

// Use jQuery via jQuery(...)

$j(document).ready(function(){

$j("div").hide();

}); 

Q14. Is there any difference between body onload() and document.ready() function?

Ans: document.ready() function is different from body onload() function for 2 reasons. 

1. We can have more than one document.ready() function in a page where we can have only one body onload function. 

2. document.ready() function is called as soon as DOM is loaded where body.onload() function is called when everything gets loaded on the page that includes DOM, images and all associated resources of the page. 

Q15. What is the difference between .js and .min.js?

Ans: jQuery library comes in 2 different versions Development and Production/Deployment. The deployment version is also known as minified version. So .min.js is basically the minified version of jQuery library file. Both the files are same as far as functionality is concerned. but .min.js is quite small in size so it loads quickly and saves bandwidth. 

Q16. Why there are two different version of jQuery library?

Ans: jQuery library comes in 2 different versions. 

1. Development 

2. Production/Deployment

The development version is quite useful at development time as jQuery is open source and if you want to change something then you can make those changes in development version. But the deployment version is minified version or compressed version so it is impossible to make changes in it. Because it is compressed, so its size is very less than the production version which affects the page load time. 

Q17. What is a CDN?

Ans: A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance. 

Q18. Which are the popular jQuery CDN? and what is the advantage of using CDN?

Ans: There are 3 popular jQuery CDNs. 

1. 1. Google.

2. 2. Microsoft

3. 3. jQuery.

Advantage of using CDN. 

• It reduces the load from your server.

• It saves bandwidth. jQuery framework will load faster from these CDN.

• The most important benefit is it will be cached, if the user has visited any site which is using jQuery framework from any of these CDN