It’s worth noting, for the benefit of any confused beginner jQuery users, that Simon’s initial jQuery(function () { line is more usually written as $(document).ready(function () {. Everyone has their own preferred way of writing that DOMReady wrapper; personally I prefer the second way, as it more clearly indicates that the code will be executed when the document is ready.
Matthew Pennell
It’s worth noting, for the benefit of any confused beginner jQuery users, that Simon’s initial jQuery(function () { line is more usually written as $(document).ready(function () {. Everyone has their own preferred way of writing that DOMReady wrapper; personally I prefer the second way, as it more clearly indicates that the code will be executed when the document is ready.