You need to simply pass the name of the function without parentheses like so
$("#qSearchBut").click(quickSearch);
Otherwise it executes the function immediately (upon parsing) and passes the
result as an argument to .click().
- Richard
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:30 AM, .mini.moke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> I'm pretty new to JQuery. I have a couple of elements that need to call
> the
> same function so my code looks like this:
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> $("#qSearchBut").click(quickSearch());
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> Pretty simple I thought. But this call executes the quickSearch() function
> on page load. What fundamental thing am I overlooking?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Amanda
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