Making Smart Menu's work with Prototype javascript library

[max]

Side note, I have some old code that uses the Prototype library.
Prototype uses the “$” to declare Javascript objects which conflicts with Jquery and prevented my smartmenu from running

(see http://learn.jquery.com/using-jquery-core/avoid-conflicts-other-libraries/)

I did the following to fix this problem.

First I load prototype and then I load jquery








Now I took "jquery.smartmenus.min.js" and with editor I replaced each occurrence of
"$" with "$j". Just like above.

And now both my old prototype stuff works in my smartmenu stuff works

[admin]

Hi,

Actually, you don’t need to edit jquery.smartmenus.min.js at all, you can use the stock version. It doesn’t use $ but jQuery and when you add this:

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();

jQuery will free the $ variable but will keep jQuery so you could still use any plugins (that are properly coded to not rely on $) without any modifications. But yes, for the initialization lines, you would need to replace $ with $j or jQuery like you’ve done.

Cheers!

[Author]

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