jquery : $().animate() is not a function

Question

I've done quite a bit of searching and was not able to find an answer to my question, so here goes.

I am trying to create a slideout toggle menu with this tutorial, and I'm getting an error slideoutMenu.animate is not a function

here is the html div in question:

<div id="corner-button"><a href="#" class="slideout-menu-toggle">myLink</a></div>      <div class="slideout-menu">             <h3><a href="#" class="slideout-toggle">Toggle</a></h3>             <ul>                 <li>Add new task</li>                 <li>See completed tasks</li>                 <li>Go to metrics page</li>             </ul>         </div> 

and here is my js function:

$(document).ready(function(){     $('.slideout-menu-toggle').on('click', function(event){         event.preventDefault();         console.log("in the toggle func");             var slideoutMenu = $(".slideout-menu");             var slideoutMenuWidth = $(".slideout-menu").width();             console.log("width : " + slideoutMenuWidth);             slideoutMenu.toggleClass("open");              if(slideoutMenu.hasClass("open")){                 console.log("open....");                 slideoutMenu.animate({                     left: "0px"                 }, 500);             } else {                 slideoutMenu.animate({                 left: -slideoutWidth                 }, 250);         }     }); }); 

I've tried a number of things, wrapping the above within a straight javascript function and using

(function($){     // code here }) 

but they all result in the same error. The q's I found related to that issue here on stackoverflow mainly directed users to have 'animate' instead of 'animated' or to make sure they use a jquery obj and not a dom obj.

Browsed thru quite a few others, but they just variations on what I had already done. tested in firefox and chrome.

when adding a console log statement console.log($.fn.jquery); I get:

3.1.0 -ajax,-ajax/jsonp,-ajax/load,-ajax/parseXML,-ajax/script,-ajax/var/location,-ajax/var/nonce,-ajax/var/rquery,-ajax/xhr,-manipulation/_evalUrl,-event/ajax,-effects,-effects/Tween,-effects/animatedSelector,-deprecated 

thanks.

Answer 1

You appear to be using the slim build of jQuery 3.1.0, which doesn't include most of the library. Instead, you should be using the full version.

https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.0.js