Jquery and Jslint - '$' was used before it was defined

Question

I have some third party javascript im working with, I added some jquery code into it the javascript file. But it seems to fail on the above code when validating using Jslint

'$' was used before it was defined. 

I can see at the top of the javascript file it states:

/*global alert: false, console: false, jQuery: false */ 

Im relatively new to Javascript, and JQuery, so any help would be welcome.

Answer 1

Add these options to your comments:

/*jslint browser: true*/ /*global $, jQuery, alert*/ 

Answer 2

If you want to use variables provided by other scripts, then you need to say so:

/*global $ */