To display the text of all paragraphs in an alert box the first time each of them is clicked:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("p").one("click", function(){ alert( $(this).text() ); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <p>Paragraph 1</p> <p>Paragraph 2</p> <p>Paragraph 3</p> <p>Paragraph 4</p> <div></div> <p>Click a paragraph...</p> </body> </html>
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