What do you need to know?

Finally, along with not paying a dime to get, and work with, jQuery Mobile, the best thing is that you probably already have all the skills necessary to work with the framework. As you will see in the upcoming chapters, jQuery Mobile is an HTML-based framework. If you know HTML, even just simple HTML, you can use the jQuery Mobile framework. Knowledge of CSS and JavaScript is a plus, but not entirely required (while jQuery Mobile uses a lot of CSS and JavaScript behind the scenes, you don't actually have to write any of this yourself!).