It's being ran from perl, so when perl is parsing the print statement,
it thinks $~whatever is a perl variable. Which is strange, because
normally use strict; will bark at you, but instead perl finds a way to
find out what $~whatever is. Its kinda strange, so I have to escape
them server side, but client side they come out as normal $
On Jan 31, 10:54 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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()?
