also, i'm not saying it's wrong or bad <sidecomment> but i have literally never ever seen anyone have line breaks in the middle of their closing tags... </ sidecomment>
On Mar 5, 10:33 am, J Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wow, the lag on this list is brutal. is there any way of reducing it, > so people don't spend time responding to already-answered questions? > > On Mar 5, 9:34 am, J Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > actually, your code doesn't display a link. it sets up an action when > > the link is clicked. > > > You're missing: <a href="#">do something</a> > > > There might be other problems too if you aren't even seeing the alert > > message. > > > Download firefox and firebug. IE isn't much help for developing > > javascript. > > > -j > > > On Mar 5, 5:16 am, pradeep_tp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am new to JQuery. I did the following to get started with JQuery. > > > > 1) Downloaded JQuery Uncompressed version. Renamed JQuery.1.2.3.js to > > > JQuery.js (I do not know whether this is correct! ) > > > 2) I followed the tutorial for "Hello world" and typed the following > > > code into an HTML file > > > > <html> > > > > <head> > > > <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"> > > > > </script> > > > <script type="text/ > > > javascript"> > > > alert('here'); > > > $(document).ready(function() { > > > $("a").click(function() { > > > alert("Hello world!"); > > > }); > > > }); > > > > </ > > > script> > > > </ > > > head> > > > > <body> > > > > </ > > > body> > > > </html> > > > > After opening this HTML file in IE 7.9, I find nothing on the page, > > > not even any javascript error. The code is supposed to display a link, > > > but I do not find any link on the page. Can anyone help me here. > > > > - pradeep