On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:05 PM, ray <rayjohnterr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It appears that the .children portion of the code either isn't getting > the .ajax_link classes, or the click handler isn't getting correctly > applied. Is there a way to determine what the actual results returned > are by the following: > > $(this).children('.ajax_link') > > i tried something like: > > var kids = $(this).children('.ajax_link'); > alert(kids);
That will look for any elements with className 'ajax_link' among the immediate children of whatever $(this) is. alert(kids.length); would tell if you if the selector retrieved anything. > i replaced the children section with the following (it looks to be > working correctly now) to grab all of the ajax_link classes, but i'd > still like to know what i was doing wrong w/ the above as well, as i > feel like the above is a little clearer: > > $(".ajax_link").click(my_click); That will apply the click handler to all .ajax_link elements in the document, regardless of what their parents are.