-- HTML --

<div id="your-name" class="layer">
 <code>The game will be starting shortly please enter your name and click next. </code>
 <label>Your Name: <input type="text" name="name" id="name"></label>
 <br><br>
 <a id="player-name" href="#">Next >></a>
</div>

-- JQuery --

$("#player-name a").click(function(event){
  event.preventDefault();
  console.log('here');
});