Adding Jquery to root folder in my server (localhost)

I am learning web development and I have no idea where to place jquery.js file on my localhost server. Do I just save 开发者_开发百科it as such /var/www/jquery.js and then reference it with:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js">?

Will that work or is there a particular place that is called a root folder on localhost server that I don't know about...Sorry for how dumb this sounds..

Just put it anywhere, and include a <script> tag that embeds it, e.g. <script type="text/javascript" src="/some/location/in/my/webroot/jquery.js"></script>.

bob,

Its always good to maintain nice heirarcy structure

do as below

Create a separate folder for js , which is javascript and place all of them there

root/js/jquery.js

and you can include

/js/jquery.js

This should be good

either you can include from google cdn also , so that you can have better performance

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js

reference here

http://softwareas.com/google-jquery-cdn

You can place it anywhere you want as long as the includes contains the proper path.

If you place it here:

/www/ajax/jquery.js

Your includes would look like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/ajax/jquery.js"></script>

BTW: /www/ is your "web root"

EDIT:

I'd also place my JavaScript includes and scripts at the end of my body section...

Click here to read about script location and performance.