Home/ Questions/Q 8082871
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-05T17:15:51+00:00

I have the following code. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd> <html>

  • 0

I have the following code.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.2.min.js" ></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function myFun()
    {
        alert(5)
    }
        $(document).ready(function(){
            $("#myID").click(myFun());
        })
    </script>
 </head>

 <body>
  <input type="button" value="Click it" id="myID" />
 </body>
</html>

When I run this code then alert(5) is coming when the page loads. If I write

$("#myID").click(myFun)

then the alert only appears when we click on the button. Why does it behave like this?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team
    $("#myID").click(myFun());

    This calls myFun() and tries to install whatever it returns as an event handler. Since it is not returning anything, you are actually triggering the click on #myID.

    • 0