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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ja">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery Practice</title>
</head>
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<h1>jQuery</h1>
// Reading jQuery
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
// When Readling html has done, start to execute jQuery
$(document).ready(function(){
// Write here jQuery Code
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
As comments, you should get ready to use and code jQuery like above.
But this is not normally used style.
You can rewrite like this.
index.html
<script>
$(function(){
hogehoge
}
</script>
And one more, if you want to use jQuery in local to some reasons, e.g. keep site speed, you should download jQuery code from here->http://jquery.com/, and write like this.
index.html
<script src="~~(path)~~~/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
anyway this is first step to use jQuery.