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jQuery vs JavaScript #

jQuery was created in 2006 by John Resig. It was designed to handle Browser Incompatibilities and to simplify HTML DOM Manipulation, Event Handling, Animations, and Ajax.

For more than 10 years, jQuery has been the most popular JavaScript library in the world.

However, after JavaScript Version 5 (2009), most of the jQuery utilities can be solved with a few lines of standard JavaScript:

Set Text Content #

Set the inner text of an HTML element:

jQuery #

myElement.text("Hello Sweden!");

JavaScript #

myElement.textContent = "Hello Sweden!";

Get Text Content #

Get the inner text of an HTML element:

jQuery #

var myText = myElement.text();

JavaScript #

var myText = myElement.textContent || myElement.innerText;

Set HTML Content #

Set the HTML content of an element:

jQuery #

var myElement.html("<p>Hello World</p>");

JavaScript #

var myElement.innerHTML = "<p>Hello World</p>";

Get HTML Content #

Get the HTML content of an element:

jQuery #

var content = myElement.html();

JavaScript #

var content = myElement.innerHTML;

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