Question

I am attempting to call up a jquery function on link click with no success:

here is my html:

<a href="..." id="removeItem" checkID="12" >Delete</a>
<a href="..." id="removeItem" checkID="13" >Delete</a>
<a href="..." id="removeItem" checkID="14" >Delete</a>

    $("#removeItem").click(function(checkID) {
    return false;
    var checkID = $(this).attr("checkID");
    $("#removeDialog").dialog( {
        buttons: {
            "No" : function () {
                $(this).dialog("destroy");
                $('input#CheckName').focus();
            },
            "Yes": function () {
                $.ajax({
                    url: "itemRemoveWS.html?id=checkID",
                    data: {
                        "action" : "remove",
                        "id" : checkID
                    },
                    success: function (data) {
                        $("#removeDialog").dialog("destroy");
                        var ang = '';
                        var obj = $.parseJSON(data);
                        $.each(obj, function() {
                           ang += '<table class="form"><tr><td width="45">' + this["CheckID"] + '</td><td width="140">' + this["Name"] + '</td><td width="95">' + this["CheckNumber"] + '</td><td align="right" width="70">$' + this["Amount"] + '</td><td width="220" style="padding-left: 15px;">' + this["Description"] +'</td><td><a href="#">Delete</a></td></tr></table>';
                        });
                        $('#container').html(ang);
                        $("input#Amount").val('');
                        $("input#CheckName").val('');
                        $("input#Check_Number").val('');
                        $("select#Company").val('MMS');
                        $("th#dept").hide();
                        $('input#CheckName').focus();
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    });
});

Answer 1

You have return false; as first instruction in your click event callback function. This means you are doing nothing.

Put it at the very last line of your logic or better change it to e.preventDefault(); using

$("#removeItem").click(function(e) {...}

As a side note, $("#removeItem").click(function(checkID) {} checkID will be an ref to triggered event here, not an element id attribute.

And again, ID attribute MUST be unique for each element on each html page.