[jQuery] Re: How to check if jquery is working?
Ok, thanks for the help people. I had to move the jquery.js into a subdirectory and link from there, and it now seems to be working. On May 16, 2:43 pm, Jim D nofxbassist1...@gmail.com wrote: You can also check to see if $ is a function. If the jQuery script loaded properly, that should return true On May 15, 2:16 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote: Try using tools like the Web Development toolbar add-on for Firefox to debug. Under Information View Javascript, you can view all of the Javascript that is loaded on the page, such as maybe other Javascript libraries that are overriding the $ variable. This will help you see what Javascript is on your page, and whether they are linked correctly or not. Additionally, also use the Firebug add-on to check whether your Javascript is spitting out any errors. Try also simplifying your code to something like: jQuery(document).ready(function(){ alert('test'); }); On May 15, 6:00 am, Charlie charlie...@gmail.com wrote: is jquery.js included on page and is it loading (ie is path valid to jquery.js)? heldtogether wrote:Hi, I want to try incorporate jquery in my site, but I'm having some problems. The site is drawn together from various files in PHP. I have added the jquery script which I would expect to work fine regardless of the PHPness earlier because it is a client side script. Unfortunately nothing happens. If I save the page directly to my desktop then the script works fine, so I think there must be some problems with the dynamic pages. Does anyone have any idea why this might be occuring? The following is what gets put onto the page in the header if I view source. script type=text/javascript src=jquery.js/script script type=text/javascript $(document).ready(function(){ $(pHello world!/p).appendTo(body); $(#onlineresources).hide(); $(#onlineresourcesbutton).click(function(){ $(#onlineresources).slideDown(slow); return false; }); }); /script Thanks, Josh
[jQuery] Re: How to check if jquery is working?
You can also check to see if $ is a function. If the jQuery script loaded properly, that should return true On May 15, 2:16 pm, James james.gp@gmail.com wrote: Try using tools like the Web Development toolbar add-on for Firefox to debug. Under Information View Javascript, you can view all of the Javascript that is loaded on the page, such as maybe other Javascript libraries that are overriding the $ variable. This will help you see what Javascript is on your page, and whether they are linked correctly or not. Additionally, also use the Firebug add-on to check whether your Javascript is spitting out any errors. Try also simplifying your code to something like: jQuery(document).ready(function(){ alert('test'); }); On May 15, 6:00 am, Charlie charlie...@gmail.com wrote: is jquery.js included on page and is it loading (ie is path valid to jquery.js)? heldtogether wrote:Hi, I want to try incorporate jquery in my site, but I'm having some problems. The site is drawn together from various files in PHP. I have added the jquery script which I would expect to work fine regardless of the PHPness earlier because it is a client side script. Unfortunately nothing happens. If I save the page directly to my desktop then the script works fine, so I think there must be some problems with the dynamic pages. Does anyone have any idea why this might be occuring? The following is what gets put onto the page in the header if I view source. script type=text/javascript src=jquery.js/script script type=text/javascript $(document).ready(function(){ $(pHello world!/p).appendTo(body); $(#onlineresources).hide(); $(#onlineresourcesbutton).click(function(){ $(#onlineresources).slideDown(slow); return false; }); }); /script Thanks, Josh
[jQuery] Re: How to check if jquery is working?
Try using tools like the Web Development toolbar add-on for Firefox to debug. Under Information View Javascript, you can view all of the Javascript that is loaded on the page, such as maybe other Javascript libraries that are overriding the $ variable. This will help you see what Javascript is on your page, and whether they are linked correctly or not. Additionally, also use the Firebug add-on to check whether your Javascript is spitting out any errors. Try also simplifying your code to something like: jQuery(document).ready(function(){ alert('test'); }); On May 15, 6:00 am, Charlie charlie...@gmail.com wrote: is jquery.js included on page and is it loading (ie is path valid to jquery.js)? heldtogether wrote:Hi, I want to try incorporate jquery in my site, but I'm having some problems. The site is drawn together from various files in PHP. I have added the jquery script which I would expect to work fine regardless of the PHPness earlier because it is a client side script. Unfortunately nothing happens. If I save the page directly to my desktop then the script works fine, so I think there must be some problems with the dynamic pages. Does anyone have any idea why this might be occuring? The following is what gets put onto the page in the header if I view source. script type=text/javascript src=jquery.js/script script type=text/javascript $(document).ready(function(){ $(pHello world!/p).appendTo(body); $(#onlineresources).hide(); $(#onlineresourcesbutton).click(function(){ $(#onlineresources).slideDown(slow); return false; }); }); /script Thanks, Josh