Right. However, jQuery isn't just for cross-browser. It provides a clean API for manipulating the DOM, as this site demonstrates (which is ironic): https://you

Right. However, jQuery isn't just for cross-browser. It provides a clean API for manipulating the DOM, as this site demonstrates (which is ironic): https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ Personally, for simple sites, I aim for vanilla JS but use jQuery (cash, actually) where it makes sense - such as working on collections of elements.