What is jQuery?

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

Visit the home page, jQuery.com

How to use jQuery library in our ASP.Net project?

Download the latest jQuery library from jQuery.com and include the reference to the jQuery library file in our ASPX page.

<script src="_scripts/jQuery-1.2.6.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

        <script language="javascript">

            $(document).ready(function() {

            alert('test');

            });

        </script>

Note

I have copied the jQuery library into a folder called _scripts in the solution.

Learn how to use the jQuery library hosted by Google's CDN in ASP.Net here.