I find that jQuery gives you a lot more than just DOM manipulation. If you were doing just that then JQuery is overkill. But JQ gives you a lot more in the way

I find that jQuery gives you a lot more than just DOM manipulation. If you were doing just that then JQuery is overkill. But JQ gives you a lot more in the way of animations, plugins, and all sorts of other useful methods. I also like the community. There seems to be a jquery plugin for damn near everything. Kind of like PHP. Yes it can be a mess. But when you are just trying to "get shit done" JQuery isn't bad at all.