Question

I am using eclipse on my project and while messing around with my eclipse settings, I turned on Javascript support. Now eclipse complains that JQuery library has errors in it and is not letting me compile the project. Does anyone know how to turn javascript validation off?

Answer 1

I actually like MY JavaScript files to be validated, but I definitely don’t want to validate and deal with trivial warnings with third party libraries.

That’s why I think that turning off validation all together is too drastic. Fortunately with Eclipse, you can selectively remove some JavaScript sources from validation.

1. Right-click your project.
2. Navigate to: Properties → JavaScript → Include Path
3. Select Source tab. (It looks identical to Java Build Path Source tab.)
4. Expand JavaScript source folder.
5. Highlight Excluded pattern.
6. Press the Edit button.
7. Press the Add button next to Exclusion patterns box.
8. You may either type Ant-style wildcard pattern, or click Browse button to mention the JavaScript source by name.

The information about JavaScript source inclusion/exclusion is saved into .settings/.jsdtscope file. Do not forget to add it to your SCM.

Here is how configuration looks with jQuery files removed from validation: