jquery - each / click function not working

Question

EDIT: this works, but not sure why?

  $('button').each(function() {
    $(this).bind(
        "click",
        function() {
            alert($(this).val());
        });
  });

I'm not sure why this isn't working... Right now, I'm just trying to output an alert with the button value, but it's not working on my page. I don't get any console errors in Firebug and can't see anything that would prevent it from working.

My HTML looks like this:

<table id="addressbooktable">
<thead>
    <tr>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Action</th>
    </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td>7892870</td>
        <td><button id="button-20" class="custom-action" value="XY89" name="info">Click</button></td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>9382098</td>
        <td><button id="button-21" class="custom-action" value="XY544" name="info">Click</button></td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>3493900</td>
        <td><button id="button-22" class="custom-action" value="XY231" name="info">Click</button></td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

And the code looks like this:

  $('button').each(function() {
    $(this).click(function() {
      alert($(this).val());
    }
  });

But, clicking on it does nothing at all? Am I using it incorrectly?

Answer 1

You can bind all buttons with a click event like this, there is no need to loop through them

$(function(){
    $("button").click(function() {
        alert($(this).attr("value"));
    });
});

But a more precise selector might be:

$(function(){
    $("button[id^='button-'").click(function() {
        alert($(this).attr("value"));
    });
});