CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javascriptjqueryinternet-explorer
tomsv
tomsv

Reputation: 7277

jquery does not become available in internet explorer

the following works in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, but of course not in MSIE 8 or MSIE 8-compatibility view:

<html>
<head><title>saffds</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">      alert($);
</script>
</head>
<body>afdskakj</body></html>

MSIE claims that $ is undefined, whereas the other browsers display the $-function of jQuery.

I have tried deleting all temporary files and restarting MSIE, setting the internet options > security > local internet to "very low" but it does not help.

Jquery from ajax.googleapis.com used to work for me a few days ago, but now I have no idea what changed to break this.

What causes this to fail?

Thanks,

-- Edit: I have tested the following, which also does not work except for Link1 which does not depend on jQuery and otherfile.js' alert which also does not depend on jQuery.

<html>
<head><title>saffds</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="otherfile.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
  alert('I love jQuery!');
});
</script>
</head>
<body>afdskakj
<a href="" onclick="alert('Hello world')">Link1</a>
<a href="">Link2</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
  alert('I love jQuery!');
});
$(document).ready(function() {
  $("a").click(function() {
    alert("Hello world!");
  });
});
</script>
</body></html>

the contents of otherfile.js is simply: 

alert("otherfile");

Upvotes: 3

Views: 276

Answers (2)

tomsv
tomsv

Reputation: 7277

My problem was resolved by resetting MSIE as described here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378

Upvotes: 2

Raffael Luthiger
Raffael Luthiger

Reputation: 2211

It looks like your jQuery file is not downloaded yet. Check the chapter "hello jquery" in this tutorial.

You need to have to wait till everything is ready:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $("a").click(function() {
    alert("Hello world!");
  });
});

Upvotes: 0

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