I am really struggling getting started with jquery, i cant get anything to work appart from an alert message

function handlesClick() {
    $("table#mytable").addClass("label");
}
    </script>

why doesnt that work?

can give me a step by step example of something very very simple that will work, just to change the color of something or something

thansk in advance

Hi,

there are plenty of little samples over at docs.jquery.com. Like for example this one: http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/addClass#class.

Also I would rather write  

$("#mytable tr td").addClass("somegreatbackgroundcolorclass");

than

$("table#mytable")

Where mytable is the id of the table you want to target.

Grz, Kris.

<div id="clickme">click me!</div>

<div id="mytable">text</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#clickme").click(function(){
    $("#mytable").addClass("class").css("font-size", "15pt")
  });
});

</script>

jquery is very nice to use definitely go to jquery.com

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js"> </script>

[ Try using this line before the line "<script type="text/javascript">" ]

Like this: <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.js"> </script>

             <script type="text/javascript">

              function Ex(){ alert('Example'); }

             </script>