What is JQuery and it's advantages in ASP.Net

JQuery is a light weight JavaScript library which provides fast and easy way of HTML DOM traversing and manipulation, its event handling, its client side animations, etc. One of the greatest features of jQuery is that JQuery supports an efficient way to implement AJAX applications because of its light weight nature and make normalize and efficient web programs.

The advantages of using jQuery are:

• JavaScript enhancement without the overhead of learning new syntax
• Ability to keep the code simple, clear, readable and reusable
• Eradication of the requirement of writing repetitious and complex loops and DOM scripting library calls