drupal and jquery

Question

i have turned on jqury-update module for drupal 6, but jquery was not not loaded, i have checked page source, not jquery here.

are there any steps i need to do to load jquery?

i have copy all jqury files to misc folder.

it just not loaded by front page

Answer 1

Drupal does not load jQuery unless you add a specific script on a given page using drupal_add_js in a module or your theme. The jQuery files themselves are library files you build upon, and without calling drupal_add_js, do not actually do anything on their own.

Using drupal_add_js