I just started using netbeans (NetBeans IDE 7.2 (Build 201207171143) under Win7/64bit) to try out jQuery developement. Especially the autocompletion seemed very handy..
I used this tutorial: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/js-toolkits-jquery.html I did everything like in this tutorial but took the current version of jQuery.js (v1.8.0) instead of the older 1.4.2-revision.
Lets look at the following code snipped:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("h1").click(function(){ alert ("HI!"); });
});
</script>
The autocompletion works for "$(document)." and suggests "ready". So far, so good...
The 3rd line starts with "$("h1")." after that selector followed by "." I get a lot of suggestions but not for "click"; When I use the older jQuery-1.4.2.js it works as seen in the following screenshot of the tutorial: http://netbeans.org/images_www/articles/69/web/js-toolkits-jquery/code-completion.png
Questions:
- What's actually the problem here?
- Can we somehow get this working with the current version of jQuery? If so: How?
- Who's potentially in charge here ... bug in jQuery or netbeans?
Regards, Stefan
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The problem only occurs if you add a <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script> to the source code. If you omit the include, it's working as it should.
So this seems to be an issue of Netbeans. And lead us to the following adapted question:
Question: Not including the jquery.js is just a workaround. Is there a way to fix that? Maybe it's needed that we disable some "auto-include-everything" option somewhere in the project?
--- update #2 : SOLUTION ---
It's even the name of the included script <script type="text/javascript" src="jq.js"></script> works, but any resource name ending in 'jquery.js' don't work, whereas <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.8.0.js"></script> worked!
So it's actually a kind of bug in Netbeans, that is caused by some hardcoded stuff. And the solution is to rename the JavaScript file in a way that it e.g. still includes the revision.