Thanks for the reply, Michael...I caught the missing ), too.
I was wondering, also, what the purpose of the ".trigger('change');" has.
I read that it is used for passing data into the triggered function?
Is my understanding correct? Can you give me a scenario where
that is likely to be used?
Rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Michael Geary
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [jQuery] Re: Would someone pleae tell me what's wrong with this
> syntax?
>
>
> Let's try collapsing out the irrelevant code and take out the newlines too:
>
> $('#select').change(function() {});.trigger('change');
>
> Does that make it easier to spot the error?
>
> -Mike
>
> > From: Rick Faircloth
> >
> > Hi, all...
> >
> > I keep getting this error from Firebug:
> >
> > syntax error
> > .trigger('change'); \n
> >
> > for this code:
> >
> > $(document.ready(function() {
> >
> > $('#select').change(function() {
> >
> > var newName = '';
> > $('select
> > option:selected').each(function() {
> > newname += $(this).text() + ' ';
> > });
> >
> > $('#name-div p').text(newName+' [Change]');
> > $('#name-div').fadeIn(500);
> >
> > });
> >
> > .trigger('change');
> > });
> >
> > What's wrong with it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rick
> >
