JQuery: Visual studio, error CS1056: Unexpected character '$'

Question

Trying to include ThickBox (from http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/) in an ASP.NET application.

Visual Studio is failing when I try to run the application with the error: js\ThickBox\jquery-1.2.6.min.js(11): error CS1056: Unexpected character '$'

Using Visual Studio 2008 and jquery 1.2.6

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 03 '09 at 18:45

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CS1056 is obviously a C# compiler error. This kind of thing happens when you put runat="server" in a client script include tag (Visual Studio attempts to compile your .js file as if it was C#). Just remove the runat="server" attribute and try again.

answered Feb 03 '09 at 18:45

rciq

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I had some other compiler error, which was actually coming from the js file itself. Your advice helped me :) – Dragoljub Ćurčić Jul 01 '09 at 17:17
+1 Great answer, i was fighting with this error for last 3 hours. But never expected that this can be a reason – Shantanu Gupta Mar 24 '10 at 11:18
I could do that, but then an url in the format "~/foo/bar.js" will not resolve. – Anders Lindén Feb 03 '20 at 10:47
Check this answer (and others in the thread) on how to resolve server paths to client scripts: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1666837/47602 – rciq Feb 04 '20 at 11:58

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '08 at 12:25

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Maybe is because of the conflict between jQuery $ and the one defined by the asp.net script library.

You can call jQuery.noConflict() then use jQuery instead of $. For example instead of $("#test") you will call jQuery("#test").

See http://docs.jquery.com/Core/jQuery.noConflict for more info.

answered Oct 14 '08 at 12:25

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Never knew about that. Thanks for the answer, I fixed it by removing the runat="server" attribute of the link. Was hoping to use that to resolve the path from the master page... – Bryce Fischer Oct 14 '08 at 13:18

Lucky · Answer 3 · 2013-12-06T06:24:03.630

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when ever we put runat="server" within script tag ,this error wil occur.

for eg:

script  type="text/javascript" id="kk" runat="server" src="js/vendor/custom.modernizr.js"

so just remove the runat=server then this error wont come.

edited Dec 06 '13 at 06:24

answered Dec 05 '13 at 11:35

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 17 '14 at 13:57

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This occured for me when I was writing jQuery code in the onClick event of my asp server control.

onClientClick was surely a better option for this purpose ;)

answered Feb 17 '14 at 13:57

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JQuery: Visual studio, error CS1056: Unexpected character '$'

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