jQuery $.cookie is not a function

Question

I am trying to set a cookie using jQuery:

$.cookie(\"testCookie\", \"hello\");
alert($.cookie(\"testCookie\"));

But when I load my page, I

Answer 1

I had this problem as well. I found out that having a $(document).ready function that included a $.cookie in a script tag inside body while having cookie js load in the head BELOW jquery as intended resulted in $(document).ready beeing processed before the cookie plugin could finish loading.

I moved the cookie plugin load script in the body before the $(document).ready script and the error disappeared :D