jQuery worked yesterday. Not anymore...

Question

Yeah, so I have NO CLUE what happened. I've been writing an AJAX comment script and I got it working, except it doesn't work anymore. I restored it from a backup just in case I chaged anything, but no luck. It goes to the "action" of the form instead of the jQuery, even though I have return false; This leads me to believe that one of the following things is wrong: I'm not including the jQuery correctly (which I am) or I have a syntax error. Do you see anything?

$(document).ready(function() {

    $("#alert").hide();

    $('form').submit(function() {

        $("#alert").slideUp().delay(1000);
        name = $('input[name=name]').val();
        email = $('input[name=email]').val();
        timestamp = $('input[name=timestamp]').val();
        entry_title = $('input[name=entry_title]').val();
        message = $('textarea[name=message]').val();
        $.post("/scripts/ajax_comment.php", {comm_name:name, comm_email:email, comm_message:message, comm_timestamp:timestamp, comm_entry_title:entry_title}, function(data){

            switch(data) {
                case "invalid email" : $("#alert").val("").append("Invalid E-mail address.").slideDown();
                break;

                case "empty field" : $("#alert").val("").append("Make sure no fields are empty.").slideDown();
                break;

                case "error" : alert("error");
                break;

                default: $(data).appendTo("#messages").hide().slideDown().animate({ color: "#669900" }, 1000).animate({ color: "#000000" }, 1000); 
            }   
        });
        return false;
    });
}); 

SOLVED: The problem was the delay(1000);

Answer 1

Do you have Javascript enabled on your browser? Do you see any error messages in the console? If you put an alert in the document ready handler is it triggered?

Answer 2

I'm not really sure what you're doing here:

$("#alert").slideUp().delay(1000);

jQuery 1.4's $.delay() is suppose to precede an action, if I'm not mistaken. You might want to remove that or complete that line - whichever is correct for your project. I see no other problems that would prevent this from succeeding.

Answer 3

I don't now if this leads to an error, but shouldn't be the keys of the JSON string enwrapped in quotation marks (I guess they are strings)? Like:

{'comm_name':name, 
 'comm_email':email, 
 'comm_message':message, 
 'comm_timestamp':timestamp, 
 'comm_entry_title':entry_title}

If you use Firefox, install Firebug and check the console for error messages.... Firebug helps a lot when developing websites.