If everything went smoothly you shouldn't see any new errors and you shouldn't see any Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined errors.Ĭlick around the pages on anything that's intended to be interactive on the page, dropdowns, forms, search fields etc. Go to the pages that had those errors and add the query parameter ?latest_jquery=true to the URL and hit enter. Now review your list of pages and files you logged earlier.

If you see any errors or warnings that were not there prior see Advanced troubleshooting. If you don't see one, congratulations you followed step 2 correctly. Look in the console for those Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined errors. If you closed the developer tools before, reopen them by right clicking and inspecting anywhere on the page. You are viewing what the page looks and functions like with the latest version of jQuery. In the tab with your website, click into the address bar again, add ?latest_jquery=true to the end of the URL, hit enter. You will open the developer tools in your web browser This guide will walk you through the steps to upgrade to a newer version of jQuery. If you are using a jQuery version provided through the HubSpot website page settings UI, we recommend upgrading jQuery or updating your site to no longer need jQuery.

Upgrading to the latest version of jQuery makes your website more secure, and potentially a little faster in terms of script execution time and loading time.

In that situation it's often much easier to upgrade to the latest version of jQuery. If there's a lot of JavaScript on a website it may be hard to remove jQuery all together. Removing jQuery can break existing old code on the website.

The result is they're also more secure.īecause going jQuery free is generally better for performance and security - it is recommended to either not use jQuery, or use the latest version available.įor older websites, it's not as simple. Those equivalents run faster, they don't require a large JavaScript library like jQuery. Most of the functionality of jQuery, has vanilla JavaScript equivalents. Modern JavaScript and web browsers have made writing JavaScript much easier. Var element = document.createElement( 'a') ĮtAttribute( 'href', 'data:text/plain charset=utf-8, ' + encodeURIComponent(textInput)) ĮtAttribute( 'download', filename)

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