Why does click event handler fire immediately upon page load?

Question

I playing around with a function that I want to bind to all the links. At the present the function fires when the page loads, instead of when I click on the link.

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Answer 1

Looks like you're calling the function showDiv directly there (and binding the return result of showDiv() to the click handler instead of binding it directly.

You want something like

$(document).ready(function() { $('a.test').bind("click", showDiv); });