Вероятно Вас это интересует:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>blank</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function echo1(text) {
alert(text);
}
$(function() {
$('#button1').bind('click', function() {echo1('some')});
$('#button2').bind('click', function() {echo1('some2')});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input id="button1" type="button" value="say">
<input id="button2" type="button" value="say2">
</body>
</html>