The click event on an A tag has a default action associated with it by the
browser ... more specifically a redirect to the links href. You have to stop
this default action in order to see your alert. There are two ways to do
this.
The first way: A click handler can return false to prevent the default (and
stop propagation). To do this, your event handler would look like this:
$("a").click(function(){
alert("Thanks for visiting!");
return false;
});
The second way: The event handler gets passed the event object as its first
argument and the event object has a method to prevent the default behavior
as well. You could also do the above like this:
$("a").click(function(event){
alert("Thanks for visiting!");
event.preventDefault();
});
Hope that helps!
--
Brandon Aaron
On 9/27/07, cmbtrx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> lol, wow--I sure was peeved!
>
> Uh anyway sorry, the page itself is off-limits (per my client's
> request), but here's the code:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
> "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> <head>
> <title>test</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
> <meta name="title" content="" />
> <meta name="description" content="" />
> <meta name="keywords" content="" />
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
> <script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(function(){
>
> $("a").click(function(){
> alert("Thanks for visiting!");
> });
>
> });
> </script>
> </head>
> <body><a name="top"></a>
>
> <a href="http://jquery.com/";>jQuery</a>
>
> [more html...]
>
>
> So, if I understand this, clicking on the "jQuery" link above
> should...uhh, pop an alert right? Or is jQuery really not that simple?
> Or do I have a typo? Or am I in the wrong profession? (OK, don't
> answer that.)
>
> And thanks for the amazing display of patience, people! (most other
> code forums would have had me tarred and feathered by now!)
>
>
> On Sep 27, 11:44 am, cmbtrx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK, forgive my tone here...I'm actually quite flabbergasted.
> >
> > I ***FINALLY*** get around to trying out jquery.
> >
> > Oh, I'm sure that quite obviously I'm doing something wrong, because
> > after following the first few paragraphs of the "How JQuery Works"
> > section (clicking a link launches an alert box...uh ok, no fine) it
> > does absolutely nothing.
> >
> > Wow.
> >
> > So far the javascript skills required for testing this are sub-fetal
> > so I can't imagine what black magic I might possibly have introduced
> > into this 79Kb albatross.
> >
> > No, OK, I won't condemn it yet, but can somebody enlighten me?
> >
> > (I thought this would be easy.)
>
>
