jQuery Get Started
Adding jQuery to Your Web Pages
There are a few different ways to begin utilizing jQuery on your site. You can:
- Download the jQuery library from jQuery.com
- Include jQuery from a CDN, as Google
Downloading jQuery
There are two variants of jQuery accessible for downloading:
- Production variant - this is for your live site since it has been minified and compressed
- Development variant - this is for trying and improvement (uncompressed and coherent code)
Both variants can be downloaded from jQuery.com.
The jQuery library is a solitary JavaScript document, and you reference it with the HTML <script> tag (see that the <script> tag ought to be inside the <head> section):
<head>
<script src="jquery-1.12.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
jQuery CDN
If you don't want to download and host jQuery yourself, you can include it from a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
Both Google and Microsoft host jQuery.
To use jQuery from Google or Microsoft, use one of the following:
Google CDN:
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
Microsoft CDN:
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.12.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
