Drupal 6: best way to upgrade jQuery?

Question

I want to upgrade jQuery inside my drupal installation. At the moment I have jQuery 1.2.6 and I would like to upgrade it to jQuery 1.4

I guess some Drupal modules st

Answer 1

the jquery update module doesn't install jquery 1.4. you need to manually update the jquery.js.

Answer 2

Take a look at the jQuery update module

Answer 3

I ended up creating my own solution based on a couple discussions on Drupal.org

It's available on GitHub and works 100% with Drupal/Pressflow 6 and jQuery 1.5.2

https://github.com/alexweber/jquery_update

Answer 4

jQuery 1.4 breaks quite a few ajax bits in the admin UI, which are pretty essential. Luckily you can get around this by loading a different version of jQuery depending on what page you are currently viewing.

I recommend using the jQuery update module and modifying it with one of the solutions here (#7 or #11):

http://drupal.org/node/775924

Answer 5

A very nice solution is the following, especially for people who do not feel very comfortable patching any part of drupal.

The author provides a clean way of running the default jquery version and any other version (of your choice) - side by side.

http://drupal.org/node/1058168