Introduction

The Web is all about content and presentation of the content to an audience. The visual representation and interactivity of content along with its user friendliness are important factors to be considered when building websites. The use of graphics in the web content adds to its visual appeal and enhances the experience of the end user. Examples of graphics include images, animated gif, flash, charts, image buttons, and so on.

jQuery eases the process of integrating graphics into web content. It provides utilities for creating effects and animations on web elements. Event handlers can be easily attached and client-side handling improves the performance by preventing a round trip to the server.

Using jQuery, ASP.NET server controls such as Image, ImageButton, and ImageMap can be enhanced with effects, animations, and event handlers. Plain HTML elements, such as the image element can also be manipulated using jQuery. This approach is useful in MVC applications since MVC uses HTML...