you rock man, thanks that works. amazing stuff, I've no idea why that
would work
but apparently because of event bubbling, I'll read up on that
many thanks again
On 28 Feb, 18:52, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
> Ah, in that case you might want to use the .live() binding:
>
> $( "#wiki_content a" ).live('click', function(event) {
> event.preventDefault();
> var link = $(this).text();
> searchDelay( link );
>
> });
>
> --Karl
>
> ____________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>
> On Feb 28, 2009, at 11:35 AM, hybris77 wrote:
>
>
>
> > thanks for the feedback, that is a much better solution, however
> > I don't seem to be getting hold of the <a> tags that im after, the
> > problem might be the fact that the div containing the tags is not yet
> > populated when the jquery function to get them runs... but im not sure
>
> > the div #wiki_content is populated using a AJAX call just before
> > the code im posting here, it contains a set of <p> tags with <a>
> > tags in them but pointing at the div itself will get hold of the
> > a tags right?
>
> > On 28 Feb, 17:27, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
> >> I think it would be a lot simpler to rely on jQuery's implicit
> >> iteration:
>
> >> $( "#wiki_content a" ).click(function(event) {
> >> event.preventDefault();
> >> var link = $(this).text();
> >> searchDelay( link );
>
> >> });
>
> >> --Karl
>
> >> ____________
> >> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>
> >> On Feb 28, 2009, at 10:50 AM, hybris77 wrote:
>
> >>> can anyone please see waht's wrong with this
>
> >>> I want to get all <a> tags in the div #wiki_content and get the text
> >>> from
> >>> it and send into a function called searchDelay... im not getting as
> >>> far as
> >>> jumping into the $.each loop so not sure waht's wrong
>
> >>> var links = $( "#wiki_content a" );
>
> >>> $.each( links, function( event ){
> >>> $(this).click(function( event ){
> >>> event.preventDefault();
> >>> var link = $(this).text();
> >>> searchDelay( link );
> >>> });
> >>> });
>
> >>> many thanks
