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Jun
One of our popular Tuts+ tutorials teaches readers how to load and animate content with jQuery. While using jQuery allows us to write relatively less code to achieve the desired functionality, it also increases page load time and introduces unnecessary dependencies. Unless the website you're working on is already loading jQuery, you might want to consider loading and animating content using pure JavaScript. The original tutorial was written a long time ago, and browser support and native JavaScript features have improved a lot during this time. Web page markup and styling Since we're trying to replicate the effect of the…