Auto click button if doesn't has class

Question

I'm trying to fire and auto click on a a href if it doesn't has the class .active . My goal is to create something like Tom from myspace to automatically add a member as a friend. But this code seems to ignore if the button is already clicked (has the class .active already) and it auto clicks again when I refresh the page. here's my code

if ($(".follow-1:not(.active)")) {
    jQuery(function(){
        jQuery('.follow-1').click(SK_registerFollow(1));
    });
} else {
    // do nothing   
}

I also tried this but it was not successful as well:

if ($('.follow-1').hasClass("active")) {
    // do nothing
} else {
    jQuery(function(){
        jQuery('.follow-1').click(SK_registerFollow(1));
    });
}

------------- UPDATED ---------------

The HTML code is this:

<a class="follow-1" onclick="SK_registerFollow(1);">follow</a>

Answer 1

OK there's quite a few things wrong here so I'll inline comment:

// $() will always return a function, so this will always fire
if ($(".follow-1:not(.active)")) {
    // This is waiting for a document.ready, so you need to do this on the outside
    /// of your code
    jQuery(function(){
        // This will execute SK_registerFollow immediately
        // and send the result to your handler. Probably not what you want
        jQuery('.follow-1').click(SK_registerFollow(1));
    });
} else {
    // No need to ever have a block which 'does nothing'
    // do nothing   
}

Here's a fixed version:

// Wait for DOM to become ready
$(function() {
    // Store a reference to the link, so we don't need to search for it twice
    var $follow = $(".follow-1");
    // Test to see if the link has the active class
    if (!$follow.hasClass("active")) {
        $follow.click(); // This will trigger the appropriate onclick handler
    }
});

jsFiddle Demo

Answer 2

if (!$('.follow-1').hasClass("active")) {
    // do nothing
} else {
    jQuery(function(){
        jQuery('.follow-1').click(SK_registerFollow(1));
    });
}

Use not equal to operator and try.

Answer 3

Try this

jQuery('.follow-1').not('.active').click(SK_registerFollow(1));

Working example