Question

I have a link which downloads a file on click. I wrote a function on onclick event of that link tag to do some ajax operations when it is clicked.

But the function is not getting called when we click on that link.

However, if i debug the code or place a alert box in that js function, it just works fine. what will be the cause for this?

My code:

HTML:

<a href="DllLocation.dll" onclick=fntrackdownloads() ></a>

JS:

function fntrackdownloads() {
    $.get("default.aspx?RT=1", Responsetrackdownloads);    
}

Working code:

JS:

function fntrackdownloads() {
    $.get("default.aspx?RT=1", Responsetrackdownloads);    
    alert("something");
}

Any help will be appreciated.

note: the anchor tag is generated dynamically from code behind and
written to dom. i am unaware of what dll location will come in href
attribute.

Answer 1

$(document).("click", "a.putaclass", function(e) {
     //what to do on the click
     var $a=$(this);
     $.get(pathtoserver,function(d) {
         alert('data received:'+d);

          }) 

     return false;  //or e.preventDefault
    });