$/jQuery not defined when dynamically adding scripts

Question

I am dynamically adding <script> tags for different .js resources into the head, however I receive an error exclaiming that jQuery is not defined.

I know that jQuery is in fact working, as other functions further down the flow are working correctly. Below is the code that I am using to dynamically add these scripts to the header. As you can see, I also include jQuery before any other plugins.

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", AddExternals)

function AddExternals(){
    var jq = document.createElement("script");
    jq.type = "text/javascript";
    jq.src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js";


    var t2e = document.createElement("script");
    t2e.type = "text/javascript";
    t2e.src = "/test/rfsystem/rfJavascript/table2excel.js";

    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(jq);
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(t2e);

   console.log(jQuery);
}

void · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-18 10:49:21Z

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Just after appending the script tag you can not expect that the script has been pulled over from the network and is embedded on to your page. It will load asynchronously.

You need to wait, or you can use .onload on that script.

Ex: You should also append the script to the DOM before attaching the onload event and You should set the src attribute after the onload event:

    var jq = document.createElement("script");
    jq.type = "text/javascript";
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(jq);
    jq.onload = function() { console.log(jQuery); };
    jq.src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js";

edited Dec 18, 2015 at 10:49

answered Dec 18, 2015 at 10:45

void

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5 Comments

A. Wolff Over a year ago

Ya because once document is parsed, appending script would load it asynchronously

Quentin Over a year ago

It certainly won't have even started the executing the jQuery code until the function that added it to the DOM has finished running. JavaScript is single threaded.

A. Wolff Over a year ago

@Quentin What do you mean? I'm not sure to understand it.

void Over a year ago

@A.Wolff previously i type onLoad which should be onload. Quentin was pointing this.

A. Wolff Over a year ago

@void Ya but i'm talking about his first comment here

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