Button Click event is not working

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Hi, I want to show "hello" message in button click event which is calling by Ajax. But, this is not working.

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title></title>

JavaScript

script type="text/javascript">
    $('#readfile').click(function(){alert("hello");});
 </script>

HTML

 </head>
 <body>
       
        <button id="readfile" name="readfile">show</button>
    </body>
</html>

Please tell me why this is not working ? Is there any problem in my code ?

Posted 8-Apr-13 5:49am

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ZurdoDev 8-Apr-13 11:53am

Do you have the < before script?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Apr-13 12:20pm

:-) !!!

UL UL ALBAB 8-Apr-13 14:54pm

yes I have.

ZurdoDev 8-Apr-13 15:03pm

Did putting it into the document.ready work?

UL UL ALBAB 8-Apr-13 14:57pm

yes I have.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Apr-13 12:20pm

"Not working" is not informative.
—SA

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fjdiewornncalwe · Answer 1 · 2013-04-08T06:32:00

Wrap the .click assignment in the document ready function.

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() { $('#readfile').click(function(){ alert('hello'); }); });

Posted 8-Apr-13 6:32am

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