title: jQuery, getting "500 Internal Server Error" when running a jQuery statement
body: <p>Whenever the jQuery is triggered I recieve the error <code>500 Internal Server Error</code>, does anyone have any ideas why the code below might be causing this?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"&gt;
  &lt;script src="../meta/js/jquery-1.7.2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script&gt;
  
      $(document).ready(function() {
          $('#form1').submit(function(e){
              e.preventDefault();
              alert('I clicked it');
          });
      });
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;form name="form1" method="post"&gt;
      &lt;button id="button"&gt;grab user data&lt;/button&gt;
      &lt;select&gt;&lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>