Question

I have a simple function that works in chrome, but in Internet explorer (9) it crashes:

function go() {
    var selector = "span";
    console.log($);
    answer = $(selector); // errors on this line.
    return answer;
}

Which outputs:

LOG: function(a,b){return new e.fn.init(a,b,h)} 
SCRIPT438: Object doesn't support this property or method 

So it appears that jQuery is there, and if i run $("span") on the IE console it works. So i’m baffled. Has anyone experienced this problem before?

Answer 1

IE offers a console.log function only when the debugger is open. Remove theconsole.log($); and it should work.

Or you could patch it like this :

if (!window.console) {
    (function() {
      var names = ["log", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "assert", "dir", "dirxml",
      "group", "groupEnd", "time", "timeEnd", "count", "trace", "profile", "profileEnd"];
      window.console = {};
      for (var i = 0; i < names.length; ++i) {
        window.console[names[i]] = function() {};
      }
    }());
}