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Billy
Billy

Reputation: 853

jQuery event not triggering

I am trying to trigger a post request when a user clicks the submit button for a comment. Right now clicking the submit button triggers nothing, I even tried to console.log($(this)) I got no output. The first code below is the jQuery event code and ajax code. The block of code below that is the html button. thanks for the help. 

 $('#submitComment').on('click', '#content', function() {
        $.ajax({
            url: 'http://localhost:3000/comments',
            type: 'POST',
            data: data = { comment: {
                body: $(this).find('input[name="createComment"]').val(),
                user_id: 1,
                image_set_id: 2}
            }
        }).done(function(response) {
            console.log(response);
        });
    });

the button I am trying to target with jQuery event

<div class="container">
    <div id="content">
      //the code between comments is in a Handelbar template
        <input name="createComment">
        <button type="submit" id="submitComment">Create Comment</button>
       //end of handelbar template
    </div> 
</div>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 50

Answers (1)

Arun P Johny
Arun P Johny

Reputation: 388316

You need to bind the delegated handler to an ancestor(#content) of the target element(submitComment)

$('#content').on('click', '#submitComment', function () {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://localhost:3000/comments',
        type: 'POST',
        data: data = {
            comment: {
                body: $(this).find('input[name="createComment"]').val(),
                user_id: 1,
                image_set_id: 2
            }
        }
    }).done(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
    });
});

Upvotes: 1

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