jQuery noConflict

If you need to inject a specific version of jQuery into a webpage that may or may not already have a different version of jQuery, or if you specifically need two different versions loaded, then you can use jQuery.noConflict.

You might use this if you’re building a custom control that gets injected into a page, where you want to make sure your stuff works as intended, but you don’t want to accidentally upgrade or downgrade the main page’s jQuery.

This sample will show how to load jQuery 1.8.3 into a page which may or may not already have a different version loaded.

var _jq183;
 
function load183() {
    if (typeof window.jQuery === "function" && window.jQuery.fn && window.jQuery.fn.jquery === "1.8.3") {
        _jq183 = window.jQuery;
        return;
    }
 
    if (typeof window.jQuery === 'undefined' || !window.jQuery.fn || (window.jQuery.fn.jquery !== "1.8.3")) {
 
        var done = false;
 
        var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
        var scr = document.createElement("script");
        scr.setAttribute("src", "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js");
        scr.onload = scr.onreadystatechange = function () {
            if (!done && (!this.readyState || this.readyState === "loaded" || this.readyState === "complete")) {
                done = true;
                _jq183 = jQuery.noConflict(true);
                scr.onload = scr.onreadystatechange = null;
                body.removeChild(scr);
            };
        };
        body.appendChild(scr);
    };
}
 
function showVersion() {
    if (typeof $ === "undefined") {
        console.log("$ is undefined");
    } else {
        console.log("$: " + $.fn.jquery);
    }
    if (typeof jQuery === "undefined") {
        console.log("jQuery is undefined");
    } else {
        console.log("jQuery: " + jQuery.fn.jquery);
    }
    console.log("_jq183: " + (_jq183 ? _jq183.fn.jquery : "N/A"));
}

You may get an error message, like:

Refused to load the script 'https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js'
because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src somethingsomething.com".

From what I’ve read, if you get this, you’re out of luck because the site won’t allow you to inject a script from another domain.