Question

I have an old jQuery version (1.2.6).
I can’t upgrade it.
The problem is that I want to use a nice slider with small bullets for navigation and fade in/out effects.

I found that slider : nova slider.
I tested it with the latest jQuery (1.7) and it works great. But on the 1.2.6 version, I got the following error message : o is not a function coming from the slider library.

Is there an alternative for older jQuery versions ?

Thank you,

Regards.

Answer 1

Here’s the nivo slider github. The issue is that it uses .live in three places, which is jQuery 1.3+. However all three appear beneath the only code that creates matching elements, e.g.

slider.append('<div class="nivo-directionNav"><a class="nivo-prevNav">' ...
:
$('a.nivo-prevNav', slider).live('click', function(){    

which means there’s no actual reason to use .live (which matches all current and future elements) as opposed to .bind (which matches all current elements). Simply replace the three instances of .live with .bind:

$('a.nivo-prevNav', slider).bind('click', function(){

and nivo slider will work fine with 1.2.6. You should be able to edit this in the packed version of the script too.