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Asked: 2026-05-12T16:22:44+00:00

What would be the best way to send an alert message to the user

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What would be the best way to send an alert message to the user if it requires them to login, but at the same time avoid an ajax call? I might have code like <a href="#" id="vote"> which would trigger an ajax function based on the click. I was thinking I would check on the server side if a user is logged in and replace it with:
<a href="#" class="not-logged-in">. If that is clicked then it will alert them that they need to log in. The problem is that I might have some css styles for the #vote. If instead I make it <a href="#" id="vote" class="not-logged-in"> it would trigger both the ajax call and alert, so I’d have to wrap the ajax call around with a check to see that the not-loggin-in class does not exist, but it seems a bit tedious to do that for all my click functions that have ajax calls. Or either I would call the parent id and set the style like #parentId a{}? Or is there any better methods? I’m not sure what people usually do, so looking for some opinions. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about this:

    The HTML:

    <body class="not-logged-in"> -- or -- <body class="logged-in">
<a href="/vote/13" class="vote">Vote!</a>

    The jQuery:

    $('body.logged-in .vote').click(function(){
    $(this).append($.get($(this).attr('href'));
    return false;
});
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