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Steve
Steve

Reputation: 857

Using jQuery with Magento without replacing $ with jQuery?

I've not really found a definitive answer for this question. I've had to edit jQuery plugins to replace instances of $. This, for me at least, is a serious issue. Anyone coming after me, if going to have a nightmare to maintain of upgrade my work. I use a lot of plugins.

Is this really the only option?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (2)

Fenton
Fenton

Reputation: 250942

As Darin has mentioned, well authored plugins are wrapped in an anonymous method. You can use the same trick in your own code too, rather than use noConflict - for example if you had a JavaScript file with loads of jQuery in it that you didn't want to update:

(function ($) {

    $(document).ready( function () {
        $('#myid').hide();
    });

    // and so on...

}(jQuery));

Upvotes: 2

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038880

If the plugin is poorly written then I guess you could try using the jQuery.noConflict method.

If it's properly written you don't need it because it will already wrap all $ usages in an anonymous method:

(function( $ ) {
  $.fn.myPlugin = function() {

    // Do your awesome plugin stuff here

  };
})( jQuery );

Upvotes: 2

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