Jquery Click Event Not Firing On First Click, but does on second click, why?

Question

I\'ve got a jQuery code, which

$("a.reply").click(function() {
//code
});

When I click the link with .reply class the fir

Answer 1

Does it still happen if you comment out all your code and simply have an alert("hi") inside the click function?

Update

I think Sarfaz has the right idea, but I would use the document ready function like so

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("a.reply").click(function() {
    //code
  });
});