Javascript deprecated

FYI - here is how I dealt with your issue ... https://github.com/jedi-academy/package-caboose

Well, I am having enough trouble figuring out why my jquery or whatever it is my helpful tutorials are trying to explain to me (even when I copy code verbatim it still does not work and error messages thrown are not helpful because I don't know enough about debugging)so now, adding another helpful thingie at this point is just sending me down another rabbit hole.

No offense, but I am trying to avoid more widgets until I know the basics. At this point, maybe just writing a style.css file just so I can get a form to look right is my best bet. (I also edited my post above regarding the directory tree - there is no file at all in my css directory as I thought styling was what my javascript jquery was looking after. Maybe I need an extra file or something in the js or in the css directories, or an extra pointer someplace?

Meanwhile, my second question is "why in the CI User Guide is the Javascript class deprecated?" Am I misunderstanding what is being said there?

Thanks all

The Javascript Library is deprecated because you do not need to load Jquery from php and it was experimental.
The user guide says to load the library like this:  $this->load->library('javascript/jquery')

Code:

$this->load->library('javascript');
$this->load->library('javascript/jquery');

You should consider just linking Jquery in your view file.