Question

Having a hard time figuring out why this alert code is being called once on 1st click, twice on 2nd click, four times on 3rd click, eight times on 4th click, etc…

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#preventClickDiv a[href]').click(function(e){ 
        e.preventDefault();
        alert('Prevented');
        newClick();
    });
});
function newClick(){
    $('#preventClickDiv a[href]').click(function(e){ 
        e.preventDefault();
        alert('Prevented');
        newClick();
    });
}

Answer 1

The first block creates a click event that calls newClick which creates a click event that calls itself… which creates another event… I think you get the idea. Take out the click event binding code in the function.

It should just be something like:

function newClick(){
    alert("in new click");
}