I'm trying to use JQuery so that when the user clicks on an HTML link, a function that I write in the JavaScript file is called.
<a href="#" id="advanced_options">Show advanced options</a>
And
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#advanced_options").click(function() {
alert('hello');
});
});
When I click on the link, it doesn't alert, but instead jump to another link. Why is that?
If you're loading the link via an ajax query, so it's not on the page during the initial loading of the page use the jQuery on function: http://api.jquery.com/on/
$(document).ready(function() {
$(document).on( 'click' , "#advanced_options" , function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
alert('hello');
});
});
You must prevent default browser behaviour:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#advanced_options").click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
alert('hello');
});
});
href="#". If you want a button that just does something with JS, and don't want to link to anything, then use an actual button and not a link.$(document).ready(function()it saysUncaught Type Error: Object #<HTMLDocument> has no method 'ready'. Butjquery.min.jsis clearly loaded. What's going on?<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>