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Asked: 2026-06-16T21:18:20+00:00

Suppose I have a page such as the following <html><head></head><body><!–STUFF–> <script> if(SomeBooleanVariable) { $.getScript(‘js/file.js’);

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Suppose I have a page such as the following

<html><head></head><body><!--STUFF-->
   <script>
       if(SomeBooleanVariable) {
           $.getScript('js/file.js');
       }
    </script>
 </body></html>

and my file.js file simply contains raw jQuery events with no wrapping. It is exactly as follows:

 $(document).on("eventHere", "classHere", function(e) {
   //Stuff
 });


 $(document).on("eventHere", "classHere", function(e) {
   //Stuff
 });

This is simply not working. When I include the contents of file.js directly into the HTML it works fine however the JS does not seem to be included properly. I have tried putting “alert(3);” at the top of file.js but it does not fire. I have tried the following:

 $("head").append("<script src=\"js/file.js\" />");
 $(document).append("<script src=\"js/file.js\" />");
 -and-
 document.write("<script src=\"js/file.js\" />");
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to load that .js file dynamically, change your code to this:

    if(SomeBooleanVariable) {
    $.getScript("ajax/test.js")
    .done(function(script, textStatus) {
        console.log(textStatus);
    })
    .fail(function(jqxhr, settings, exception) {
        console.log("Triggered ajaxError handler.");
    });

    And see if you get any error in console

    It may be, that you are, for example, using mod_rewrite and jQuery tries to load script relative to the “folder” your subpage is in. Example: you are @ http://www.example.com/link-to-subpage/. In this case, jQuery will try to load http://www.example.com/link-to-subpage/js/file.js, while it resides @ http://www.example.com/js/file.js. In this case, use an absolute path. So, instead of:

    js/file.js

    write:

    /js/file.js
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