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Salathe · 09-27-2008, 07:29 PM

Your code will execute as soon as the browser sees it, but at that time there are no <a> elements to attach the click function to! You need to wait until the HTML document is all downloaded to safely attach event handlers like this.

JavaScript Code:

jQuery(function(){

  $("a").click(function(event){
    alert("As you can see, the link no longer took you to jquery.com");
    event.preventDefault();
  });

});

09-27-2008, 07:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
Salathe Moderateur Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,393 Thanks: 5	Your code will execute as soon as the browser sees it, but at that time there are no `<a>` elements to attach the click function to! You need to wait until the HTML document is all downloaded to safely attach event handlers like this. JavaScript Code: jQuery(function(){ $("a").click(function(event){ alert("As you can see, the link no longer took you to jquery.com"); event.preventDefault(); }); });