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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:36:50+00:00

There’s a great tutorial on IBM’s website which walked me through a simple search/results

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There’s a great tutorial on IBM’s website which walked me through a simple search/results list using jQuery,PHP and Ajax.

I was able to make it work and it’s really cool.

One problem. I want the results to be hyperlinks and I can’t get any java script to run on the results.

Here is the script I have (includes what was in the tutorial plus the additional script necessary to ovverride the hyperlink, click behavior):

<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#search_results").slideUp();
$("#search_button").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
ajax_search();
});
$("#search_term").keyup(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
ajax_search();
});
$("a").click(ClickInterceptor);
});

function ajax_search(){
$("#search_results").show();
var search_val=$("#search_term").val();
$.post("./find.php", {search_term : search_val}, function(data){
if (data.length>0){
$("#search_results").html(data);
}
})
}

function ClickInterceptor(e)
{
window.alert("Hellow World!");
return false;
}
</script>

If i put the following html under the <body> tag:

<a href="test">this will work</a>

That will display the alert window.

However, if I change the results to hyperlinks (found in find.php, listing 7 from the tutorial):

$string .= "<a href=\"test\">".$row->name."</a> - ";

It does not work.

Any idea on how to fix this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The click function binds when it is run. You need to change it to a live binding.

    $("a").live("click", ClickInterceptor);

    Or you can just bind it when you update the search results by putting the following after $("#search_results").html(data):

    $("#search_results a").click(ClickInterceptor);
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