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Asked: 2026-05-26T12:39:56+00:00

I am trying o learn jQUERY , i am trying with different types of

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I am trying o learn jQUERY , i am trying with different types of things in jquery .
I got this query , on click of a button , i am using the click funcion of a button to call another function , as shown .

But this isn’t working .

Could you please tell me , cant we use the click this way 

$("button").click() instead of standard  $("button").click(function(){

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This is my code 

<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js" >
 </script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("button").click()
{
   callMe();

}
});

function callMe()
{
 $("p").hide();
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<h2>This is a heading</h2>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
<button>Click me</button>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    jQuery is a library built for the JavaScript language, not an actual language itself, and is thus restricted to what JavaScript lets it do.

    $("button").click()
{
   callMe();
}

    So why the above won’t work is because .click() is a method in jQuery that takes in arguments/parameters, not an actual part of the JavaScript language itself, which doesn’t let you use a block in that way.

    $("button").click(function()
{
   callMe();
});

    The function itself is an argument/parameter being passed to the click method. See if you can understand what’s going on this way:

    var myFunction = function()
{
   callMe();
};
$("button").click(myFunction);

    Or this way:

    function myFunction()
{
   callMe();
}
$("button").click(myFunction);

    The above three code blocks would all cause callMe() to be called when anything matching button is clicked.

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