A pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine designed to be easily dropped in to a host library.

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• Browser support

In the spirit of open source software development, jQuery always encourages community code contribution. To help you get started and before you jump into writing code, be sure to read these important contribution guidelines thoroughly:

1. Getting Involved
2. JavaScript Style Guide
3. Writing Code for jQuery Foundation Projects

In order to build Sizzle, you need to have Node.js/npm latest and git 1.7 or later. (Earlier versions might work OK, but are not tested.)

For Windows you have to download and install git and Node.js.

Mac OS users should install Homebrew. Once Homebrew is installed, run brew install git to install git, and brew install node to install Node.js.

Linux/BSD users should use their appropriate package managers to install git and Node.js, or build from source if you swing that way. Easy-peasy.

Clone a copy of the main Sizzle git repo by running:

git clone git://github.com/jquery/sizzle.git

In the sizzle/dist folder you will find build version of sizzle along with the minified copy and associated map file.

• Run npm install, it's also preferable (but not necessarily) to globally install grunt-cli package – npm install -g grunt-cli
• Open test/index.html in the browser or run npm test or grunt test on the command line
• The actual unit tests are in the test/unit directory.

• npm run build or grunt will lint, build, test, and compare the sizes of the built files.
• npm start or grunt watch can be run to re-lint, re-build, and re-test files as you change them.
• grunt -help will show other available commands