- jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. It works across all major browsers.
- jQuery UI provides interactive widgets, effects, and themes that can be used to build highly interactive web applications. It is built on top of the jQuery library and uses JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Popular widgets include accordion, autocomplete, datepicker, dialog, and slider.
- To use jQuery UI, developers include the jQuery-ui.js and jquery-ui.css files in their web pages. It offers interactions, widgets, effects, themes and utilities that enhance the user experience of applications.