JQuery error during load “Failed to execute query: '*,:x' is not a valid selector.”

Question

I am trying to debug an application and I can\'t start because I am getting an error as the browser is loading jquery 2.1.0. The error is on line 1210 of the unminified ver

Answer 1

I've found this jQuery bug ticket that seems like what you're experiencing, another one on StackOverflow describing the problem and a longer discussion about it on another jQuery bug ticket.

Although, it seems like it's not tagged as a bug as it's jQuery's internal error checking/exceptions being thrown.

As the comment by jQuery team describes:

Resolution set to notabug

Don't break on caught exceptions. We caught it because we expected it.