Does anyone know why there are so many ways to do this?

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of John Beppu
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [jQuery] Re: divert click to an anchor

 

$('div.test').click(function(event){ location.href = $('a').attr('href') });


On 8/21/07, John Liu < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
wrote:


<html><head>
<script language=javascript src=" jquery-1.1.3.1.js"></script>
<script language=javascript>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("div.test").click(function(){
     alert('div.test clicked');
     $("a").click(); 
  });
});
</script></head><body>
<a href="http://google.com";> google </a>
<div class='test'>click</div>
</body></html> 

I have a situation where if anyone clicks anywhere within the div, I
want the anchor to be fired - in this case, navigate to google.com.
Why doesn't the above code work?

thanks in advance.
jliu

 

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