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Asked: 2026-06-18T12:11:59+00:00

jQuery is doing something strange for me: it just doesn’t work and hides the

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jQuery is doing something strange for me: it just doesn’t work and hides the div only for split a second. What am I doing wrong?

The code in question, as simple as can be.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>Experiment</title>
<script type="text/javascript" 
           src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>

        function doHiding() {
           $("div.thread").each(function() {
                    $(this).hide();
           });
        }


</script>
<a href="" onClick="doHiding()">Hide</a>

<div class="thread">I like trains.</div>
</body>
</html>

I am using Chromium on Linux. I see the div dissapear for split a second, but it appears again immediately.

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  1. Editorial Team
     function doHiding() {
       $("div.thread").each(function() {
                $(this).hide();
       });
      return false;
    }

    it is not hiding again it is the page that is being refreshed because href="" links to same page

    NB: i guess you used onClick="doHiding()" for the sake of demo only (otherwise handle your event within jquery scope)

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