Hello, world!

基本上，每一个编程教程都会从“Hello,world！"这个列子开始，我们这个教程也不例外。在上一章中，我们学习了如何在页面中使用jQuery，所以现在我们可以开始使用它的所有功能。但是在你开始写代码之前，你需要更多地了解jQuery的运作。为了确保所有一切都能运作，也为了让你能看看jQuery有多简单，我们将从一个简单的小列子开始。

<div id="divTest1"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#divTest1").text("Hello, world!");
</script>

好的，首先我们有一个id为"divTest1"的div标签。然后在Javascript代码中，我们使用$快捷访问jQuery，去选择"divTest1"底下所有的元素（虽然这里只有一个），并把它们的文本设置为"Hello, world!"。你或许还没有足够关于jQuery的知识去理解这个例子的工作原理与方式，但是随着你继续学习本教程，所有元素都将得到详细的解释。

Even such a simple task as this one would actually require quite a few extra keystrokes if you had to do it in plain JavaScript, with no help from jQuery:

<div id="divTest2"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("divTest2").innerHTML = "Hello, world!";
</script>

And it would be even longer if our HTML element didn't have an ID, but for instance just a class.

Normally though, you should wait for the document to enter the READY state before you start manipulating its content. The above examples will work in most browsers and likely even work when you do more advanced stuff, but certain tasks may fail if you try to do them before the document is loaded and ready. Fortunately, jQuery makes this very easy as well, as we will see in the next chapter. After that, we will start looking into one of the most important aspects of jQuery, which has already been used in the above example: Selectors.