I want to perform some action when a link is clicked, I am using the following code to achieve this however it rarely works. If I click the link it usually refreshes the page, and 1/10 times it'll actually pop up "Hi". What is wrong?

$(document).ready(function()
{
    $('#slconfiglink').click(function()
    {
        alert("hi");
        return false;
    });

});

HTML:

<ul>
    <li><a href="" id="slconfiglink">Config 1</a></li>
</ul>