Plugins (Should know)

I know what you've been thinking all this time. "Charlie, why do I need to know how to do these things when there are so many plugins available for jQuery?" That's a very good question.

There are numerous plugins available for jQuery, and specifically for table manipulation. Sometimes the plugins are overkill, though. Maybe a particular plugin doesn't work exactly the way you'd like it to. Perhaps your employer is shy about using third-party code (except, of course, for jQuery itself).

Plugins are great, and they are a significant part of the reason that jQuery is so popular. It's always good to know how to do something on your own, though. Of course once you know how, it never hurts to work smarter, and not harder.

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