Question

My ASP.NET WebForms project heavily depends on JQuery. An on some level, I find myself doing the following;

$('#Message').hide();

Then I wondered why I wasn’t using plain javascript there as following;

document.getElementById('hideShow').style.display = 'none';

This is just an example and I have other parts of my code which can be easily done with plain JavaScript. (but I have also some of the parts which JQuery takes over)

So my question is that : what is good way of doing this here in regard to performance?

Answer 1

• jQuery reliefs you from some compatibility issues in browsers.
• jQuery is very efficient. (Write less, Do more).
• jQuery has become an industry-standard (very wide use).

For me, I don’t like plain Javascript and prefer to use jQuery for the above reasons.