Hi community! I’m creating a section that has JS inside the section file (inside ). When I just add the section via the Theme Editor, no JS runs until I save. It doesn’t even run if I edit the section with various fields. It has to be saved in order for the JS to be executed. I’m using the “shopi…

Just bumping this up in case someone missed it. :slightly_smiling_face:

You can wrap the function with this. {% if request.design_mode %} document.addEventListener("shopify:section:load", function(event) { }); {% endif %} Reference: https://shopify.dev/themes/architecture/sections/integrate-sections-with-the-theme-editor

I’m having the same problem. Did you ever find a solution?

I did! You need to wrap the JS with the {% raw %}{% endraw %} tags. So it would be That worked for me.

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for me. I thought the raw tags were just for outputting liquid brackets. I can’t even output a console log.

oh, then maybe try using {% javascript %}…{% endjavascript %} tags. I don’t remember how I got it to work, but I believe the previous option is working for me as well…

Hey I’m still trying to find a solution for this. Looks like the one you provided is not working. Could you please check what you used? this would help me a lot!!!

Can you paste what you’re adding here in the thread? It should work using either {% javascript %}…{% endjavascript %} or simply in the

thank you for your response. Again to make sure we are talking abou the same problem, the script is not run when you add a section for the first time only. after saving it runs it correctly. {{ section.settings.hello_world }} {% javascript %} console.log("hey from javascript") {% endjavascript %}…

oh, right. Thanks for the clarification. I haven’t found a way to go around that. It looks like Shopify takes the JS added in this way and appends it to a scripts file that it loads. So it only does that once the section is actually saved the first time. The only way around this is to add the JS t…

Javascript not running on newly added section

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zaack93 June 12, 2024, 8:46am 12

Did anyone find a solution ?

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Javascript not running on newly added section

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