Absolute Jquery Beginner

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So,

I’m delving into Jquery for a project I’m working on. I need an external page to popup in an overlay. I found the perfect solution here:

http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/overlay/external.html

My problem? I cannot get it to work, even as a stand alone example, copying and pasting the code.

I link the jquery library in the head as so:

<script type=“text/javascript” src=“jquery-1.7.1.min.js”></script>

I paste the javascript from the above example directly into a sample index.html I made, in the head tag. I copy and paste the css into the style.css file connected to the index.

All I get is a button, a bunch of repeating images (that are supposed to show up in the overlay) and… a non-working example.

I do notice that when I go to download the jquery library, when I click on “download” it just shows the javascript in the browser. I had to copy and paste all of it into a new file and save it as “jquery-1.7.1.min.js”

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Sounds like you did things right. First question, then: where did you save the jQuery file? Is it in the same folder as the .html file?

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On a side note i personally don’t use local references of the jQuery library anymore, i now use the Google code CDN which is a lot faster and always changes with each new version that comes out.

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js

If you want a version specific to a plugin then you can simply use the below URL for example and change the version number until you find the correct release.

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js

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Hey, thanks so much for your answers.

@ralph.m, The jQuery file is saved in the same folder. I’m just testing it on my computer. I have xampp, so I’m testing it on that.

@SgtLegend, Thanks, I tried this. It still looks funny, but I think I’m headed in the right direction.