Disclaimer : I could be completely wrong on this BUT - I don't think DNN 4x has native jQuery support. Of course all DNN5 does is call the script for you.

For any time you want to be using jQuery, you just need to make sure there is a reference to the jQuery.js script, and then you can use jQuery. It is fine to reference it multiple times as well, such as if your skin does and your module (or the text/HTML) module does.

Best documentation I've found is the jquery site and google. There are a lot of more specific things I have to look up about using jquery and .NET that google gives me the best examples of, but jquery is still an excellent initial point.

Thank you Timo for the useful link.  I went through Joe's posts, and though it didn't answer my question directly, it did give some insightful tips.

I ultimiately got this to work across all browsers in a 4.9.4 installation using the following in my .ascx skin file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<%=skinpath%>js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="<%=skinpath%>js/mydownloadedopensourcescript.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function($) { 
$(document).ready(function(){   
            $("#myidgoeshere").myscriptselector({
            });
        }); 
})(jQuery);           
    </script>
 

The important bit here for me was the <%skinpath%> selector - that curbs a number a path issues...

Also, as Joe's posts indicate, wrapping the $ jQuery selector into a simple function allows one to reuse 3rd party / existing scripts without them interfering with DNN's native javascripts, and thus eleminates having to change selectors from $ to something else...

Timo, though this works 100%, I just wanted to query if <%skinpath%> is the correct way to get something like this going..?  Seems like it.  For some reason I always thought this was only used for images, bit seems to work for any path relative file...

Jon

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