Question

jQuery is too overpowering 🙁

String.prototype.trim = function () {
    return this.replace(/^(\s| |\u00A0)+|(\s| |\u00A0)+$/g, "");
}

when I try to add the above code, I get “this.replace is not a function”.

I realise that jQuery references itself as this, so how are you meant to reference this?

Answer 1

Problem solved:

I forgot to put the semi colon on the end of the function and it was running in to the jQuery function

String.prototype.trim = function () {
    return this.replace(/^(\s| |\u00A0)+|(\s| |\u00A0)+$/g, "");
};

(function ($) {
......