Top 15 jQuery Interview Questions With Answers

Without a doubt, jQuery has given a much needed boost to JavaScript, a language so useful but equally underrated at times. Before jQuery comes into picture, we used to write lengthy JavaScript code not just for bigger but even for smaller functionality. Those code were at times both difficult to read and maintain. Having written JavaScript before using this excellent library, I realized true power of jQuery, just after using it for a month. Given it's huge popularity, jQuery interview questions are increasingly asked in any web developer interview, not just beginners but also experienced developers, including HTML and JavaScript. Since jQuery is relatively new, most interview questions are asked from core jQuery library including selectors, DOM manipulation and jQuery basics. In this article, I am sharing a list of 16 jQuery questions asked to HTML and JavaScript programmers in different interviews. Some of this questions also asked in Java Web development interview, where it's required to work on both Server side (Spring, Servlet and JSP) and Client side (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery). If you are going for an interview, where role demands multiple skills e.g. Java, jQuery, it's not expected from you to know every minor detail or comprehensive knowledge of jQuery, but if you are going for a purely client side development role, you might get more tricky and advanced jQuery questions than mentioned in this article. Nevertheless, you can use it to quickly revise some of the most frequently asked jQuery questions on interviews, but they are mostly suited for web developers with 2 to 5 years of experience, especially in Java stack.

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