Why jQuery does not work on my home (local) machine?

Question

My question isn\'t so much about why a specific bit of jQuery I\'ve written isn\'t working as it is about no jQuery at all is working; not even working examples I\'ve copied

Answer 1

The code is ok.

The script is not downloading because, as you probably are not deploying the code, the browser will default to the file:// protocol.

To solve it, add the http: at the script tag: