I'm just trying to find out if there is any way to trace/findout jquery plugin conflicts without going much deeper into the code or at least some kind of test that can be done to make sure that there isn't any conflict among different jquery plugins.
Also how to fix them other than noConflict approach. thanks
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i want to use this two files in my work jquery.easyui.min.js and jquery-ui.min.js. But when i include jquery.easyui.min.js , my site changes. it seems jquery.easyui.min.js tries to conflict with jquery-ui.min.js. is there a way to fix it so they all work independently
Most easyui plugins are in conflict with jQueryui, as far as I have done some research. The best thing to do is to use either jquery-ui or jquery-easyui.
If two different frameworks are using the same shortcut, one of them might stop working.
To avoid conflict between them you can use $.noConflict() function.
for more details check the link
jQuery noConflict
How do you guys resolve conflicts between Jquery plugins. A conflict would be a situation where two or more Jquery plugins (such as a file upload plugin) work properly alone but result in errors or unintended behavior when you include a second plugin.
I have this problem right now and I am considering using an iframe to isolate sections of my page from everything else. But I want to avoid this if possible to work out these conflicts.
Auditing the plugin code is not feasible its mountains of code and there are short development times to consider.
I can't use jquery.noConflict because I would have to fire it and then replace the $ with Jquery in ever line of my code. Editing the plugins is not feasible. I thought jquery.noConflict didn't work for plugins? It only works for javascript/jquery libraries? I'm not reffering to libraries. Just plugins like sliders, galleries, fileuploaders etc etc.
I used:
(function($) {
jQuery.noConflict();
});
Already..
After some digging around on the web I found some resources
Jquery Plugin conflict
How do I solve this jQuery plugins conflict?
http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-plugins-conflict
And the last one
http://www.jotform.com/help/130-Fixing-Jquery-Plugin-Conflicts-jCarousel
It seems that everyone suggest to use noconflict but except for the last one who said it worked - I don't see a reason it should work, since in documentations JQuery explains that it was meant for libraries that don't use JQuery but collide with it. ( see the 3rd resource I pasted here).
Anyway, it seems as if the best option is to dive into the code and modify it.
i had an issue with jquery conflict, but my case was i had also used prototype.js. i worked out a solution for that. here is a pointer checkout if it helps.
jquery conflict occurs when "$" is also used by some other plugins. hence we need to define jQuery.noConflict
so that all the methods are called using some other reference in this case 'jQuery'.
try include the scripts files on the page as follows.
include all the jQuery files (library and all plugins which are dependent on jquery).
fire jQuery.noConflict();
include all other libraries/ plugins.
wherever jquery methods are called use "jQuery" istead of "$"
hope this helps you out..
We have Tabs-Menu controls which rely on jQuery library and the dev-manager insist that i should get the functions that controls are using into a separate java-script file so we don't have to reference/rely on the whole jQuery, so it made me wonder.. is it a bad idea to edit the jQuery files ?
Yes it is a very bad idea. It would be a nightmare to maintain with all the bug fixes and feature changes the jQuery team would make.
You should write plugins to modify the behavior as you want.
The gzipped production version of jQuery is 31K. Not only is this an unmaintainable idea, but this is a pre-optimization. Any images beyond tiny PNGs or GIFs will likely be as large or larger than the entire jQuery library.
Additionally, this is time that could be spent addressing actual problems. I don't know what sort of userbase you're targeting, but unless every one of your users is on dialup, 31K will take no time at all to download.
is it a bad idea to edit the jQuery files ?
Yes. If you edit the core jQuery library, you make it much more difficult to use future versions of jQuery, which may include important new features, bug fixes, etc. If you make your changes in plugins, as you should, you can just drop in the new versions of jQuery when they're released.
Well I'd say it's a pretty bad idea. You really want the responsibility of maintaining the mess you have left after chopping it out? Are you an expert on the jQuery library? Do you understand all of the side effects? You would be better off rewriting portions of your Tabs-Menu controls without jQuery than trying to chop out bits of jQuery. I presume that the issue is that you don't want the "overhead" of including a relatively large script for a small set of features. This is unfortunately the way of jQuery. Either
Accept that you have to use jQuery, and make the most of having it referenced
Rewrite your Tabs-Menu controls without jQuery
any other option is going to be painful. Insist that your dev-manager reads the answers to the question.
I've seen a million different posts and (as odds would have it) a million different answers regarding how to include multiple jQuery libraries/plugins along with unrelated libraries/plugins. My main concern are the ones that require jQuery themselves.
Basically I'm using Prototype, jQuery, jQueryUI, and jQuery.dropshadow.js. Due to the requirements for Prototype, I obviously need to use "jQuery.noConflict()". However, this seems to break the other libraries. That leaves me wondering, in what order I need to include things and if I need to go back and replace the "$" in all the scripts with something else.
It would really be nice if these tutorial writers would start covering edge cases. Is it just me, or does it seem like they glaze over (or completely ignore) these hoping no one will use them?
Anyway, would someone mind explicitly detailing how to go about this?
Best.
The jQuery function (normally $) can be named anything and plug-ins handle that by wrapping themselves like this:
(function($) {
...
})(jQuery);
If any plug-ins breaks when $ is named differently (jQuery.UI certainly does handle this), please contact the plug-in author because it's a bug.
I am trying to use FormCheck for MooTools to validate a basic contact form I am planning to build. The problem is I can't seem to set up the script to work at all =(
If anyone knows about FormCheck or MooTools and can add any pointers they would all be greatly recieved.
My website is here: http://ryanis.me/
You are using jquery AND mootools on the same page? Why would you do that, it's a bad practice and bad form to stuff your users for two frameworks for what is a small page without anything complex. that aside, are you using the noconflict mode in either framework (note that this is only available since mootools 1.2.3 and requires some changes in the source code of the plugins, probably better off namespacing jquery)
first of all, you have a mootools domready function then you do inline js on the body tag onLoad...
then at the bottom of the source, you try the mootools domready again...
then you embed an accordion script (something that mootools can have built in as part of mootools-more). not sure what you use jquery for but you really need to structure your page better and pick a single framework.
the error you are getting in the formcheck js implies that either this.form is undefined (at time of evaluation $("contactform") was not available or that this.form.getElements() is not a valid method, which would imply that the mootools element prototype is not working. once again, are you using the noconflict mode?
it really needs refactoring and rethinking...
If you are using jQuery you may want to check out various jQuery plugins that will do form validation for you. The validation plugin works pretty well. If you want to use jQuery and MooTools together, you probably need to make sure that you are using jQuery in noConflict mode.