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CSS jQuery Basics (2014) Introduction to jQuery Ways to Include jQuery in a Project

Posted by Bla Blubb
Bla Blubb
2,740 Points

why include jquery in the html file?

in the first video we have not included jquer in the html file just included the jquery code in the jss file. with succes.

now we include the jquery library and we complicated the code in the jss file.

why?

2 Answers

Yaroslav Kleshchev
Yaroslav Kleshchev
8,744 Points
Yaroslav Kleshchev
Yaroslav Kleshchev
8,744 Points

You can write j query code in the html file, but most of the time people avid doing that. Keeping code on separate files keep thing much more cleaner and flexible.

Jonathan Cousins
Jonathan Cousins
4,160 Points
Jonathan Cousins
Jonathan Cousins
4,160 Points

First: What is a jss file?

Second: jQuery is a very useful JS library which is used mainly for DOM manipulation. I recommend using it.

You should never embed the jQuery library into an HTML page. Instead, use the script tag to "import" the script into the page.