Problem with Jquery in newly created ASP.NET MVC application in VS2013

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Hi guys,

I've just created a new ASP.NET MVC application within Visual Studio 2013. But, I ammediately run into problems. When I try to use jQuery, i get the "JavaScript runtime error: '$' is undefined" error.

I didn't modify anything. The only thing I added was:

<pre lang="HTML">
  <script>
    alert($("#col-md-4").val());
    alert($(".col-md-4").val());
</script>

This is the body part of my layout file

HTML

<body>
    <div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
        <div class="container">
            <div class="navbar-header">
                <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
                    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                </button>
                @Html.ActionLink("Application name", "Index", "Home", null, new { @class = "navbar-brand" })
            </div>
            <div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
                <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
                    <li>@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")</li>
                    <li>@Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")</li>
                    <li>@Html.ActionLink("Contact", "Contact", "Home")</li>
                </ul>
                @Html.Partial("_LoginPartial")
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="container body-content">
        @RenderBody()
        <hr />
        <footer>
            <p>© @DateTime.Now.Year - My ASP.NET Application</p>
        </footer>
    </div>

    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/bootstrap")
    @RenderSection("scripts", required: false)
</body>

I've got the bundels in the "BundleConfig.cs" and I've got the jquery file's like "jquery-1.10.2.js" in the scripts folder. Which is all generated when created an ASP.NET MVC project.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong here?

Many thanks in advance!

Posted 27-Feb-14 9:29am

Mark Vloerjans

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Richard C Bishop 27-Feb-14 15:37pm

Post the HTML that shows you referencing your jQuery files. There could be an order issue.

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Mark Vloerjans · Answer 1 · 2014-02-27T20:37:00

Solution 2

Fixed it...

The jquery bundle had to be in the head not at the bottom of the body...

HTML

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>@ViewBag.Title - My ASP.NET Application</title>
    @Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/modernizr")
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/bootstrap")
</head></head>

Posted 27-Feb-14 20:37pm

Mark Vloerjans

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Richard C Bishop 28-Feb-14 15:29pm

Good work!

[no name] 16-Jan-19 8:11am

I have it in Head only. But i am getting this error
"Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference"