Will jQuery work with Javascript turned off?

No

By Clinton Montague

No

Why not?

jQuery is a javascript library. This means it is written using javascript, so it cannot run if javascript is disabled.

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3 Comments

  1. Dan Brickley added these wise words on May 14, 2009 | Permalink

    Unless it’s running server-side… http://ajaxian.com/archives/server-side-jquery-e4x-and-more-with-jaxer

  2. Clinton Montague added these wise words on May 16, 2009 | Permalink

    @Dan Brickley – that’s right, in fact server side javascript is actually quite an interesting subject and one which I’m actively learning about at the moment – but the FGQ (frequently googled questions) section is aimed towards answering some of the simpler questions which people ask google to ultimately end up here, so this FGQ was aimed to answer the more frequently asked client side question :)

    Oh, slight side thought – even though technically it is possible to run jQuery server-side – is there much use? Obviously (I think!) the selector engine is rendered useless (after all what does $(“#myselector”) mean if a DOM doesn’t exist), however some of the extra functionality it provides could be very useful, like the $.each() function, which (for the non jQuery guru) works on arrays – not just DOM elements selected via the $ function. For more information, check out the jQuery $.each documentation, and the entire jQuery manual.

    Visual jQuery is also an excellent place to easily browse through the jQuery functionality – although (at the time of writing) it’s demonstrating jQuery 1.2.6 (the most current version (again, at time of writing) is 1.3.2)

  3. Mike added these wise words on May 22, 2009 | Permalink

    Lots of searches for jquery without javascript? Do people actually ask this stuff?? What is this world coming to???
    http://www.google.com/search?q=does+jquery+work+with+javascript+turned+off

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