Trying to load jquery into tampermonkey script

JavascriptJqueryTampermonkey

Javascript Problem Overview


I am writing a script which logs into my college network when the login page is loaded.

The code looks as follows

// ==UserScript==
// @name       My Fancy New Userscript
// @namespace  http://use.i.E.your.homepage/
// @version    0.1
// @description  enter something useful
// @match      <College login page>
// @copyright  2012+, You
// ==/UserScript==    
$(document).ready(function() {
        
    var usr=document.getElementsByName("username");
        
    var pass = document.getElementByName("password");
        
    usr.value="usrname";    
    pass.value="password";    
        
    var submitButton = document.querySelector ('input[type="submit"][value="Login"]');
                    
    var clickEvent  = document.createEvent ('MouseEvents');
                    
    clickEvent.initEvent ('click', true, true);
                    
    submitButton.dispatchEvent (clickEvent);
    
    });

The console shows a error saying

$ is not defined

Can someone tell me what is going on here?

Javascript Solutions


Solution 1 - Javascript

You need to have a @require in the user script header to load jQuery. Something like:

// @require http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js

(Selecting your desired version from the of list of available versions of jQuery)

Solution 2 - Javascript

For future googlers,

If you have used the above method and still jQuery doesn't seem to be loaded by your script try looking at the spaces, And try to match the indentation with the rest of the header. Apparently the indentation is important.

Faulty:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         New Userscript
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        https://stackoverflow.com/*
// @require http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js 
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

Correct:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         New Userscript
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  try to take over the world!
// @author       You
// @match        https://stackoverflow.com/*
// @require      http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js 
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

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