The $ dollar sign

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$ is just a name – names in JavaScript can contain dollar signs, and can consist of just a dollar sign.

Whether you use a dollar sign in your name isn’t relevant to jQuery – there’s nothing special about the dollar sign, except that jQuery defines a function called $.

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