Questions tagged [javascript]
GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT JAVASCRIPT ARE OFF-TOPIC. This tag is for questions relating specifically to the use of JavaScript on the Stack Exchange sites.
225 questions
22 votes
1 answer
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Clicking on the Stack Exchange bubble on the top bar doesn't do the usual dropdown, and kicks me to Stack Exchange.com on *some* sites
Clicking on the Stack Exchange bubble should bring down the site switcher: On Super User, it kicks me over to the main stackexchange.com site. It works fine on MSE. Super User is on rev 2025.8.20....
5 votes
1 answer
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What is StackExchange.options.site.negativeVoteScoreFloor?
While perusing the StackExchange JS global object, I noticed StackExchange.options.site.negativeVoteScoreFloor. From searching the Internet Archive, it seems to have appeared some time around October ...
7 votes
0 answers
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"more hot questions" link is broken
When I visit a question, and then try to use the 'more hot questions' link in the sidebar, it doesn't work as advertised. Hovering over it shows me the URL of the post I'm currently on, and clicking ...
15 votes
1 answer
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What are the selected vote button colors?
Edit: user3840170's stylesheet does what I was planning to do, and is a cleaner solution than anything I would have come up with. I'm working on a userscript to reverse the upcoming vote button ...
3 votes
0 answers
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Can the other external JavaScript content be automatically used? [duplicate]
When browsing a Stack Exchange site and encountering a message like ... Stack Exchange requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load. Retry using another source....
11 votes
1 answer
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I'm getting "Uncaught ReferenceError: Stacks is not defined" errors in my browser console on Stack Exchange sites
The last few weeks the amount of 'Stacks is not defined' errors is increasing. This occasionally occurs on any StackExchange site, and throws the following error in the console [1]: Uncaught ...
12 votes
0 answers
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Attempting to protect a question that is no longer eligible for protection silently fails
I opened a question that had just gotten a new answer. The answer scores were as follows: 65 10 7 4 -1 (new answer) 0 (deleted) 0 (deleted) -2 (deleted) The protect link was present on the question. ...
13 votes
1 answer
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Toast notifications are not being shown; a TypeError in `StackExchange.helpers.showToast` is thrown instead
Some toast notifications (i.e. those banners as shown in this screenshot) are not being shown; an error is visible in the console instead. This bug applies to Meta Stack Overflow and Meta Stack ...