Jquery href click - how can I fire up an event?

Question

I have this anchor and on click I would like to popup something. This href is within a page that has other hrefs.

<a class="sign_new" href="#sign_up">Sign up</a>

jQuery:

$(document).ready(function(){
   $('a[href = "sign_up"]').click(function(){
      alert('Sign new href executed.'); 
   }); 
});

The above code does not fire up.

Answer 1

It doesn't because the href value is not sign_up.It is #sign_up. Try like below, You need to add "#" to indicate the id of the href value.

$('a[href="#sign_up"]').click(function(){
  alert('Sign new href executed.'); 
}); 

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/pnGbP/