$ is a shortcut for the word jQuery. Make sure you have the jquery library
loaded in the header, or just replace $ with the word jQuery
On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 10:04:09 AM UTC-5, Jared wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I made a little JavaScript function (wind.js) that will update the Seasons
> *current_widget* table with wind values from CRT realtime.txt. The
> function works perfectly fine if I drop it into the browser console after
> the page loads, but for the life of me I cannot get this thing loaded by
> itself. The console always shows the error *$ is not defined* in
> wind.js. The errant line is *tbl = $('.widget_contents',
> $('current_widget'));* where I am grabbing the table object.
>
> The index.html.tmpl <body> sections runs the setup(); function "onload"
> from the seasons.js file, which looks like it establishes the widgets. If
> I drop <script src="wind.js"></script> after </body>, why are the widget
> objects still undefined? I've tried various methods of deferring this
> script from being run, but nothing is working.
>
> This is literally the first thing I've ever created in JavaScript and am a
> complete newbie in working with web programming, so go easy on me :)
>
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