Question

I want the user to click on a button and then have some html pop into an element. I did so and it works but it only works once. If they click the button again, nothing happens. I thought using empty() would fix the problem but it doesn’t. What’s wrong with my code.

<script type="text/javascript" >

$(document).ready( function() {

   $('#button').on('click', function () {

     $('#ul').html('<li>testing testing</li>').hide(1000, function() {

        $(this).empty();    

     });    

   });

});

</script>

<input type="button" value="click me" id="button" />

<ul id="ul">

</ul>

Answer 1

The element is hidden the second time you click the button. You can do:

$('#ul').show().html('...

http://jsfiddle.net/KXkgZ/