jQuery: noConflict

Question

I just cannot work this out. My god it\'s making my brain hurt, so I turn to you, the good people of the internet.

I\'ve been staring at the documentation for the jQ

Answer 1

I would agree with other posts that suggest trying to upgrade to 1.4.2 across the board... That said, you clearly have a good reason for attempting what you are trying to do. To my knowledge there is no easy way to deal with your situation (as I too have tried something similar).

"noConflict" simply releases the global "$" variable so that other libraries/scripts may safely use it. Given that you are trying to use two versions of jQuery "noConflict" isn't really helpful here...calling it for both versions of jQuery doesn't change the fact that both versions still need to reference the global "jQuery" object (of which there can only be one...).

The issue (as you clearly already know) is that loading the 2nd jQuery version will "clobber" the original jQuery object (and all the "customizations" made to it by plug-ins).

The only reliable (albeit incredibly inefficient) solution I could come up with is:

• Load the existing (old) jQuery version and plugins (assuming you can't avoid this)
• Load the new jQuery version
• RE-load and existing plugins and any new plugin you want to use
• Test extensively