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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
(2009), most of the jQuery utilities can be solved with a few lines of standard JavaScript:
Set the inner text of an HTML element:
jQuery myElement.text("Hello Sweden!");
myElement.textContent = "Hello Sweden!";Get the inner text of an HTML element:
jQuery myText = $("#02").text();
myText = document.getElementById("02").textContent;Set the HTML content of an element:
jQuery myElement.html("<p>Hello World</p>");
myElement.innerHTML = "<p>Hello World</p>";Get the HTML content of an element:
jQuery content = myElement.html();
content = myElement.innerHTML;