Troubleshooting javascript failed [closed]

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I have a page: http://concours.quebecskialliance.com/francais.html. It only works in Firefox but not in Safari or Chrome. The button, made with a jQuery .button is not created, which lead me to a JavaScript 开发者_StackOverflowerror, but even with JSLint or Chrome console developers tool I cannot find what's wrong.

Note: to work there should be a big box in the upper right part, full of images

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This might just be my average knowledge of jQuery speaking but this with the period seems strange

var tovalidate  = $.('#friend_email_input').val();

shouldn't it be

var tovalidate  = $('#friend_email_input').val();

that's the line that IE's debugger is erroring out over..