On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:19 PM, thertze...@gmail.com <thertze...@gmail.com> wrote: > > \$(this).css({ backgroundColor:color }); never seem to fire, as far as > I know though, its valid jquery javascript... > > As for the statement above "("input#color_code").val() " is whatever > the user selects from the color picker. > > If anyone is questioning my \$ in my javascript, i have to do it this > way, because I'm running this with a Perl script, and perl uses $ to > define and use variables.
Using the backslash within a Perl script which writes your javascript, I can well understand. But the output--what the JS interpreter sees--should be a bare $, not \$. In any case, why not just use jQuery.noConflict()?