Remove Jquery dependency

[JustCallMeAD]

It would be nice to rewrite this in pure javascript (maybe have jquery optional) as it is very useful to in conjuction with asp.net core / .net 5 view components (it basically elimates the need to write javascript!).

[wenz]

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