How to include jquery.js in Grails?

Question

I have a Grails 2.0.0 project that was created using grails create-app. In my HTML and GSP files, I\'m trying to include jquery.js. I\'ve tried all of

Answer 1

As per the current docs - http://grails.org/plugin/jquery (Grails version: 1.3 > *) on 18th Sept, 2015

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Installation

To install the jQuery plugin type this command from your project's root folder:

grails install-plugin jquery

Targets:

grails installJQuery

• This target downloads and installs jquery-1.4.2.js and jquery-1.4.2.min.js under web-app/js/jquery/

The complete jQuery distribution is downloaded and installed under your project's /web-app/js/jQuery folder.

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Usage

Ajax via jQuery

To have the Grails' adaptive AJAX support adapt itself to jQuery (rather than the default of Prototype, or another choice like YUI or Dojo):

Since Grails 1.2:

Add this line to your layout-file

and the following to your grails-app/conf/config.groovy

grails.views.javascript.library="jquery"

alternatively you can use:

(without plugin="jquery") but you will need to call the grails installJQuery target (see Installation Tab)