Semicolon on jQuery

Question

The following jQuery works with or without a semicolon after the function. Why?

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery("#red").treeview({
    animated: "fast",
    collapsed: true,
    control: "#treecontrol",
    persist: "cookie"
})

});

It works on all browsers. Wouldn't this cause an error?

Answer 1

JavaScript doesn't actually require semicolons. That's just convention.

http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons

I recommend using semicolons, just like I'd recommend indenting your code.