Question

I have this jQuery code:

$('#SomeLink').onclick = 
    function(event)
    {
        alert('test');
    };

And this is my markup:

<a href='#' id='SomeLink'>
    Some Link
</a>

Obviously very simple. Here is the jsFiddle for the above code.

What is the onclick event not firing with a simple dialog? I’m new to jQuery, and I’m sure it’s a very simple thing but I can’t seem to figure it out.

Answer 1

Because that’s simply not how the jQuery API works. This is:

$('#SomeLink').click(function(event)
{
    alert('test');
});

http://jsfiddle.net/mattball/VZtQn/