wp_enqueue_scripts and jQuery

  • Resolved Hugo

    (@hugogpropellerse)


    13 years ago

    Ok, I’m trying to use the jQuery-placehold script by jgarber (https://github.com/jgarber623/jquery-placehold) in order to be able fake the placeholder form attribute for older browsers. But I can’t seem to be able to load the script correctly, and I can’t really figure out what’s wrong. I’m not 100% on PHP syntax, so I’m guessing it’s probably something wrong there.

    I’ve put this in the <head></head> of my header.php file (before the wp_head(); call )

    <?php
function place_method() {
   // register your script location, dependencies and version
   wp_register_script('jquery.placehold',
       get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.placehold.js',
       array('jquery'),
       '1.0' );
   // enqueue the script
   wp_enqueue_script('jquery.placehold');
}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'place_method');
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
		jquery().ready( function() {
			jquery( "input, textarea" ).placehold( "something-temporary" );
		});
</script>
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  • The php portion of that code would most likely go in your functions.php file

    That’s where scripts are enqueued from

    Then I’m guessing the script portion of that goes in /js/jquery.placehold.js (A file I’m guessing you need to create)

    I can’t speak to the validity of the code, just how to actuyally enqueue scripts in WP

    Thread Starter Hugo

    (@hugogpropellerse)

    Thanks, I’ve tried putting it in functions.php instead, without success.

    Thing is, the script works if I test it in a plain html page and reference it directly, it’s all valid. But as soon as I try to get WordPress to register and enqueue it, something goes wrong. It’s not the script itself or the URI, but something else – either in the enqueue part or the noConflict part.

    The script adds a class to jQuery, can there be some referencing problem there?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Is the script being called into the page correctly?

    Thread Starter Hugo

    (@hugogpropellerse)

    Ok, I solved it, I called the script before wp_head(); which of course was silly of me. I realized my mistake when Firefox kept throwing error messages that jQuery is not defined, when clearly it was. Thanks guys!

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