Question

I’m learning jQuery and can’t figure this out:

Here’s the HTML

<a id="myid" name="myid" href="stub">click here</a>

and the jquery snippet:

 $("#myid").click(function() {
    alert('Hello from click');
 });

Yet when I click on the link no alert displays. Something basic no doubt, What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

I figured it out, file this under “learning jQuery”.

The hyperlink html was being loaded into a div via load() by clicking on a button after the document had loaded.

Fine, but the problem was that I was binding the event handler to the hyperlink before the element was created. Having used inline onlcick() for so long, it took me a while to figure it out the jQuery/Ajax way.

Thanks for the suggestions.