Greg, I'm not sure how your's is much diffrent then the original.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Greg Tarnoff <greg.tarn...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Actually all of these are slow. The last example will run anytime you
> click the page. You only want to run this if they click an A element.
> So attach a click event to A. Try this:
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $('a').click(function(){
> alert($(this).attr('href'););
> });
> });
> only do the e.preventDefault(); if you don't want it to go somewhere.
>
> I use this method all the time to get the HREF, always putting it into
> a variable, and affect the page. Usually for things like sliding
> panels. By putting in #myid it remains accessible when JS isnturned
> off.
>
>
> On Jan 23, 4:30 am, Andrei Eftimie <k3liu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> $(document).ready(function() {
> > >> $("a").click(function(event) {
> > >> alert( "You clicked a link to " + this.href );
> > >> return false;
> > >> });
> > >> });
> >
> > This method is very slow.
> >
> > Try using event delegation:
> >
> > $(document).ready(function() {
> > $(document).click(function(event){
> > if ($(event.target).is('a') {
> > alert( "You clicked a link to " + event.target.href);
> > return false;
> > }
> > });
> >
> > });
> >
> > --
> > Andrei Eftimiehttp://eftimie.com+40 758 833 281
> >
> > Puncthttp://designpunct.ro
>
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