Question

suppose some markup such as:

<div id="header">
   <div id="nest-one>
      <a href="#">one</a>
      <div id="nest-two">
         <a href="#">two</a>
         <a href="#">three</a>
       </div>
    </div>
</div>

and I want to tie a single click handler to all of the a tags.

I tried the following, but didn;t seem to work. I know I’m missing something stupid easy, just not sure what it is.

$('#header a').click(function(){alert('on click')});

Answer 1

On this line:

<div id="nest-one>

You’ve missed the closing double-quote on the id.

Aside from that, make sure any JavaScript referencing HTML elements is in the document ready function and/or after those elements in the source.