Drupal 6: best way to upgrade jQuery?

Question

I want to upgrade jQuery inside my drupal installation. At the moment I have jQuery 1.2.6 and I would like to upgrade it to jQuery 1.4

I guess some Drupal modules still depends on the old jQuery version. I've tried jquery_update module to upgrade jQuery, but it didn't work. It asked to replace the original Drupal files in the "misc" folder with the new ones, but it didn't work.

Anyway, I was wondering if there is a better method instead of using another module

thanks

When you say you replaced the file and it didn't work. What exactly didn't work? — Shadi Almosri, Apr 26 '10 at 12:28
maybe consider changing your accepted answer because it seems that manually updating the jquery.js file may cause a lot of problems — jackocnr, Mar 11 '11 at 13:14

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '10 at 16:51

jQuery 1.4 breaks quite a few ajax bits in the admin UI, which are pretty essential. Luckily you can get around this by loading a different version of jQuery depending on what page you are currently viewing.

I recommend using the jQuery update module and modifying it with one of the solutions here (#7 or #11):

http://drupal.org/node/775924

SunnyRed · Answer 2 · 2011-07-12T14:08:40.033

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A very nice solution is the following, especially for people who do not feel very comfortable patching any part of drupal.

The author provides a clean way of running the default jquery version and any other version (of your choice) - side by side.

http://drupal.org/node/1058168

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score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 26 '10 at 12:51

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Take a look at the jQuery update module

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I've not had any trouble with jQuery Update, if you do you should report the bugs to the modules that don't work with it. – alxp Apr 26 '10 at 13:01

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 29 '11 at 15:04

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I ended up creating my own solution based on a couple discussions on Drupal.org

It's available on GitHub and works 100% with Drupal/Pressflow 6 and jQuery 1.5.2

https://github.com/alexweber/jquery_update

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 23 '10 at 14:41

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the jquery update module doesn't install jquery 1.4. you need to manually update the jquery.js.

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so, I should use jquery update module and then manually download jquery 1.4 and overwrite the old one ? – aneuryzm Apr 28 '10 at 06:29
yeah, that's the best way for now. – 30equals Apr 28 '10 at 08:50
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you can't just replace jquery.js with a newer version and expect it to work! ahah, draggables and a bunch of other stuff will break! – Alex Weber Nov 29 '11 at 15:03

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