Well I tried that, and sad to say but the }); was in there. Am I not
calling the jquery library properly? Does jquery have a problem the
html doc I have at the top of my code?
Thanks a lot for your help
On Jan 28, 9:32 pm, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Looks like you're missing a line. Try this:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("a").click(function(event){
> alert("Thanks for visiting!");
> event.preventDefault();
> }); // <-- you were missing this one.
>
> });
>
> Try it here:
>
> http://test.learningjquery.com/click.html
>
> --Karl
>
> ____________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>
> On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:33 PM, surreal5335 wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am just starting into jquery and I ham having the hardest trying to
> > get anything to happen with my code. I have tried several tutorials,
> > copied and pasted and still nothing happens. What am I missing?
>
> > The current code I am trying to get to work is:
>
> > <html>
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
>
> > <title></title>
> > <head>
> > <script src="traffic/jquery-doc.js" type="text/javascript></script>
>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
>
> > $(document).ready(function(){
>
> > $("a").click(function(event){
> > alert("Thanks for visiting!");
> > event.preventDefault();
>
> > });
>
> > });
>
> > </script>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <a href="http://jquery.com/";>jQuery</a>
> > </body>
> > </html>
>
> > The <script src="traffic/jquery-doc.js" type="text/javascript></
> > script> is calling jquery pack 1.3.1 or the latest one available. I
> > have downloaded it and uploaded it to my web site then renamed it to
> > "jquery-doc.js"
>
> > Supposedly the event.preventDefault(); is meant to prevent the
> > default event of linking to jquery from happening, but it doesnt. The
> > alert that is suppose to pop up is not happening either. So what am I
> > missing?
>
> > Thanks a lot
