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 first time, nothing happens. The second time I click, the code inside the click function works.

The link is being inserted on the page using PHP from a mysql database. so it's not being inserted dynamically.

Why is this happening? Any solution?

The BadASS Code:

$(function(){
//TextArea Max Width
var textmaxwidth = $('#wrapper').css('width');
//Initialize Focus ids To Different Initially
var oldcommentid = -1;
var newcommentid = -2;
//End Of initialization

$("a.reply").click(function() {
        newcommentid = $(this).attr('id');
        if (newcommentid == oldcommentid)
        {
        oldcommentid=newcommentid;
        $("#comment_body").focus();
        }
        else
        {
        $('#comment_form').fadeOut(0, function(){$(this).remove()});
        var commetformcode = $('<form id="comment_form" action="post_comment.php" method="post"><textarea name="comment_body" id="comment_body" class="added_comment_body" rows="2"></textarea> <input type="hidden" name="parent_id" id="parent_id" value="0"/> <div id="submit_button"> <input type="submit" value="Share"/><input type="button" id="cancelbutton" value="Cancel"/></div></form>');
        commetformcode.hide().insertAfter($(this)).fadeIn(300);
        //
        var id = $(this).attr("id");
        $("#parent_id").attr("value", id);
        oldcommentid=newcommentid;
        //dynamicformcreation function
        dynarun();
        //
        }



        return false;
    });

        dynarun();
        
        function dynarun()
        {
        //Form Re-Run Functions
        $('#comment_body').elastic();
        texthover();
        $("#comment_form input, select, button").uniform();
        textareasizer();
        $("#comment_body").focus();
        $("abbr.timestamp").timeago();
        return false;
        }
        
        //TextArea Resizer Function
        function textareasizer(){$("#comment_body").css('max-width', textmaxwidth);return false;}
        
        //Other Miscellaneous Functions
        $('.comment-holder').hover(
        function(event) {
            $(this).addClass('highlight');
        },
        function(event) {
            $('.comment-holder').removeClass('highlight');
        }
        );

        function texthover()
        {
        $('.added_comment_body').hover(
            function(event) {
                $(this).parent().parent().addClass('highlight');
            },
            function(event) {
                $('.comment-holder').removeClass('highlight');
            }
        );
        return false;
        }
});

Solution 1

This is a longshot, but are you running some sort of tracking script? Like webtrends or coremetrics (or even some of your own script, that's globally looking for all clicks)? I ran into a similar problem a while ago, where the initial-click was being captured by coremetrics. Just a thought.

Solution 2

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
  });
});

Comments

[Hirvesh]

nope, even with document ready and only a simple click function with an alert inside it does not work.

[yoda]

that approach is essentially the same.

[unclenorton]

If it works the second time, document.ready isn't likely to help here, though it is a good practice to use it.

[Hirvesh]

isn't $(function(){ supposed to be a shorthand for document ready? :p

[Hirvesh]

hmm...good thinking. I have tons of script working in the background. Gonna disable them and see.

[Hirvesh]

you nailed it man. There was a form styling script I was using. Removing the script does the trick. Now everything works.

[Hirvesh]

the script in question was jquery uniform. pixelmatrixdesign.com/uniform I wish I could kick that developer in the ass.

[Hirvesh]

@yoda a common problem with very little explanation of it on the web O_O You can't believe the amount of I was sitting here researching and pulling my hair out.

[Hirvesh]

@True North Creative thanks once more...wasn't such a longshot with your guess huh... :p

[yoda]

@the_archer: actually there's lots of information about it, but since most people having trouble with it have no substancial knowlenge of javascript, it's hard to google for a solution.

[Hirvesh]

@yoda you're right. It's only my 3 weeks into javascript :)