anchor tag , click and livequery

[Naveen puttu]

Hi folks ,

I have an anchor which looks like this

<th style="width:125px;"><a href="#1" id="trigger" class="textLink hrefNoLine">Item name</a></th>

im trying to do something when one clicks on this anchor tag

$("trigger a").livequery('click',function(){
		alert();
		// do blah
	});

But when i click on the anchor tag . i dont get an alert coz the control isnt going inside that livequery function

this is annoying . what am i doing wrong

[Eric Pascarello]

coz is not a word UseRealWords

Your selector is saying look for an element with the tag "trigger" and find any element inside that that is the tag "a"

Your selector should just be #trigger

Eric

[Naveen puttu]

Eric ,

#trigger doesnt work for me

[Bear Bibeault]

ItDoesntWorkIsUseless

There is no reason it should not work if you are accurately showing your markup.

What version of jQuery are you using?

[Naveen puttu]

1.2.6 is the jquery version

[Bear Bibeault]

If you have a unique element with an id value, that value will get selected by $('#elementId'). Are you sure that your markup is valid? That the script is being executed?

[Naveen puttu]

i dont know what exactly do you mean by

Are you sure that your markup is valid? That the script is being executed?

[Bear Bibeault]

Is your HTML valid? If you have bad HTML, multiple ids of the same value, or other markup errors, nothing will work right.

Also, if the script doesn't execute, it can't do anything.

[Naveen puttu]

Bear,

Im positive that the anchor tag has a unique id

lemme explain what iam trying to achieve

I have a table with th and td tags

i have an anchor tag against one of these th tags . i want to do something when the link is clicked .

By the way what would stop the script from being executed

[Bear Bibeault]

Naveen puttu wrote:Im positive that the anchor tag has a unique id

Then there is no reason that the selector will not work.

i have an anchor tag against one of these th tags . i want to do something when the link is clicked .

Why are you using livequery for this?

By the way what would stop the script from being executed

Bad markup. Other script errors. Etc...

Are you using Firebug to help debug this?

[Naveen puttu]

im using firebug for debugging with breakpoint

firstly , no errors reported by firebug when the page loads