From the course: jQuery for Web Designers
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Which version to use - jQuery Tutorial
From the course: jQuery for Web Designers
Which version to use
- [Voiceover] Now let's talk about which version of jQuery you might actually want to use. I'm here on drupal.org just to give you an example of a Drupal site. If you're already working on an existing project, you may find that it already has jQuery installed. And just as they say the best camera is the one you have with you, the best version of jQuery may be the one that's already with you, the one that's already installed. So, if you want to see what that is and whether there is one available, you can look at the JavaScript console in your browser to find out which version of jQuery you currently have. In Chrome, I can get there by right-clicking and choosing Inspect Element, or with Command+Option+I on the Mac, or Control+Shift+I on Windows, and then clicking the Console tab. If I can type jQuery here and it autocompletes, I know it's there. Then if I type jQuery.fn.jQuery like this and hit Return, it tells me the currently installed version. This is 1.4.4, which is a pretty old…
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