Question

I am trying to install a simple news ticker jQuery plugin to the home page of a website built using Joomla 1.5

No matter what I do, I always get the error jQuery("#js-news").ticker is not a function despite the files are loaded correctly and the $ sign is replaced with jQuery to avoid conflicts with Mootools.

I also tried to use the Cycle plugin first, but I was getting the same error. The weird thing is I am using the jQuery library (1.6.2) without any problem.

link here

Any suggestion?

Thanks

Answer 1

I would try to wrap it in a document.ready() as well – defining jQuery last is perfect but remember to call noConflict(). Consider the following :

$j = jQuery.noConflict();

$j(document).ready(function(){
    $j('#js-news').ticker();
});

Or alternatively – Thanks @Kevin B

$j = jQuery.noConflict();

$j(document).ready(function($){
    $('#js-news').ticker();
});