jQuery vs. IE7

Just a note to all those that may stumble about the same issue with Internet Explorer 7 and JavaScript (and maybe jQuery). The following code works fine in Firefox and Safari:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $(".showtooltip").qtip({
    content: {
      text: false,
    }
  });
});

Then I tried the website with IE7 and it just didn’t work. Got some error message indicating an error on a certain line – but no real  help to find the bug. So I asked Google and it found a blog post about issues with jQuery and IE7. The solution is as simple as removing the trailing comma after the last entry of an array. The corrected code looks like:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $(".showtooltip").qtip({
    content: {
      text: false
    }
  });
});

There was just that comma after “text: false,” – and oh wonder, now it works also in IE7. Damned stupid browser. BTW: The above is for using qTip, a jQuery library to show tooltips which is pretty nice.