JQuery: how to download ONLY necessary components?

Question

I simply want to use the JQuery Slider functionality and nothing else.

However, to do so - it's my understnading that I must download 3 files:

1. JQuery Core
2. JQuery UI base
3. JQuery Slider

This totals to about 74kb (28kb gzipped).

Since I'm ONLY using JQuery for the Slider functionality - how can I remove all the unused JQuery base code like the Toggle function, etc easily?

Answer 1

Not easily.

Minified gzipped jQuery is only 19KB; it's not worth the effort.

For added performance, load jQuery.js from Google: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js