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JavaScript

Posted by Britton Zirkle
Britton Zirkle
Courses Plus Student 15,005 Points

Error loading JQuery

I have loaded up the program files in Sublime text and am having the following problem:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Take Evasive Action</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
  <p class="warning">
    <span>It's A Trap!</span>
  </p>
  <div class="image">
    <img src="img/ackbar.gif" />
  </div>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
    <script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
</body>
</html>

//Hide Warning
JQuery(".warning").hide();
//Show Warning Slowly
//$(".warning").hide().show("slow");

The javascript console in Chrome is giving me the following error, "Uncaught ReferenceError: JQuery is not defined app.js:2 (anonymous function)"

If I comment out the JQuery(".warning").hide(); statement and uncomment the last statement, it works fine. I accessed the package control in Sublime and installed the JQuery package, restarted Sublime and still get the same reference error.

I know I can just replace JQuery with $, but my understanding is that its better to use JQuery because $ could be aliased to something in another JS library and create conflicts. I'd prefer to sort this issue out, if there is a way. Any help is much appreciated!

1 Answer

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Your reference error may be related to the fact that you are capitalizing the J.

JQuery(".warning").hide();

Have you tried it with:

jQuery(".warning").hide();
Britton Zirkle
Britton Zirkle
Courses Plus Student 15,005 Points

You are a scholar and a gentleman sir. Thank you!