Why is my jQuery button handler not being fired?

Question

I have this jQuery to respond to a button being clicked and call a REST method:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(\"#btnGetData\").click(function() {
             


        

Answer 1

Add button type like this if you are submitting a form:

SUBMIT

UPDATE

From your "Update 2" change first line this :

to this:

we do not need to check integrity of jquery file here so by removing that you will be able to run jquery without any errors. Thanks