I'm using Ajax to populate my web page, but the populated HTML isn't working

Answer 1

Three problems:

1. It is moving you to the top because you have a href="#" change it to href="javascript:void(0)"

2. http://mikemarks.net/clientSites/js/modal/jquery.simplemodal.js returns 404. Check location

3. http://mikemarks.net/clientSites/js/modal/basic.js returns 404. Check location

Answer 2

It seems that your webpage lacks of jquery.simplemodal.js and basic.js and the css associated ( for example, for the display:none; on your basic-modal-content )

That's why you don't have any modal on load.

Plus, your link or button doesn't have any event handler (for example, $('.basic').click(...);)

That's why you don't have any other action than the anchor.

To remove the anchor action, I recommand to use event.preventDefault