Jquery href click - how can I fire up an event

Question

I have this anchor and on click I would like to popup something  This href is within a page that has other hrefs    lt a class  sign new  href   sign up  gt Sign up lt  a gt    jQuery     document  ready function          a href    sign up     click function          alert  Sign new href executed                    The above code does not fire up

User · Accepted Answer

It doesn t because the href value is not sign up It is  sign up  Try like below  You need to add     to indicate the id of the href value      a href   sign up     click function      alert  Sign new href executed             DEMO  http   jsfiddle net pnGbP

User · Answer

If you own the HTML code then it might be wise to assign an id to this href  Then your code would look like this    lt a id  sign up  class  sign new  gt Sign up lt  a gt    And jQuery     document  ready function            sign up   click function            alert  Sign new href executed                   If you do not own the HTML then you d need to change     sign up   to    a sign new    You might also fire event stopPropagation   if you have a href in anchor and do not want it handled  AFAIR return false might work as well      document  ready function            sign up   click function event           alert  Sign new href executed             event stopPropagation

User · Answer

You are binding the click event to anchors with an href attribute with value sign new   Either bind anchors with class sign new or bind anchors with href value  sign up  I would prefer the former

User · Answer

Try     document  ready function          a  sign new   click function          alert  Sign new href executed                    You ve mixed up the class and href names   selector type

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