Question

I have the following:

$.fn.myFunction = (action) ->
  console.log "hello!"

and when i call

$(".myDiv").myFunction()

it works fine in firefox, chrome, and safari but it fails in IE.

Answer 1

Your jQuery selector is one that looks for an element with tag “myDiv”:

<myDiv> There is no such element in standard HTML </myDiv>

Internet explorer tends not to like that. Are you really “inventing” elements?

Perhaps you meant to look for this:

<div id='myDiv'> This is more like it. </div>

In that case, your selector would be “#myDiv”:

$('#myDiv').myFunction();

Note that console doesn’t exist before (I think) IE8.