What does [object Object] mean?

The default conversion from an object to string is “[object Object]”. As you are dealing with jQuery objects, you might want to do to print the element’s ID. As mentioned in the comments, you should use the tools included in browsers like Firefox or Chrome to introspect objects by doing console.log(whichIsVisible()) instead of alert. Sidenote: … Read more

Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined? (40 answers) Closed 5 years ago. I have implemented some JavaScript on my site but I keep getting the following error messages: Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined and Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < This is the JavaScript that I am using in … Read more

What is JSONP, and why was it created?

It’s actually not too complicated… Say you’re on domain example.com, and you want to make a request to domain example.net. To do so, you need to cross domain boundaries, a no-no in most of browserland. The one item that bypasses this limitation is <script> tags. When you use a script tag, the domain limitation is … Read more

Error OPTIONS net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I am developing a web application using “jQuery”(front-end) and “Python”(back-end). While making a PUT request to update details in the database, this is the error I get in the console: OPTIONS “REST API URL” net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED My jQuery code is: I read about how HTTP Requests other than GET and POST are first pre-flighted as OPTIONS … Read more