how-to: jQuery and Netbeans 6.7

[DrTebi]

I noticed a few people being confused why the Javascript libraries section in the project properties disappeared.

As far as I understand, in Netbeans 6.7 any Javascript file within your project is parsed, and when editing Javascript, it should give you code completion for all the Javascript files in your project.
This means that technically all you have to do is have the file "jquery.js" (or whatever your library is called) within your project directory.

The tricky part however is, that this doesn't work well with compressed or minified scripts. Further, you may get code completion but no meaningful documentation popup. To overcome this issue, the best thing to do is to download the latest jQuery source code with "Visual Studio Autocomplete Documentation." Netbeans appears to parse the Visual Studio comments nicely into the document popup, which then becomes really useful again.

The latest (of today) Visual Studio documented jQuery file can be downloaded here:
http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/downloads/detail?name=jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc2.js

I keep this copy as a separate copy to the minified version in my "js" directory, my scripts use the minified version, Netbeans can get all the documentation from the VS documented file.

In your scripts make sure to link to the minified files, as the documented file is of course a lot bigger than the minified one.

Hope that helps all jQuery fans

DrTebi