Hi, Mark... Check into the LiveQuery plug-in and use it on your .click element. (see the instructions at the plug-in site). You can also use .live function built into jQuery 1.3, if you're using that. But I understand the .live function has some limitations that the LiveQuery doesn't have.
hth, Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Mark MacInnes > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 1:14 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] New link being ignored by jQuery > > > I'm using jQuery to perform some ajax when a link with a certain id is > clicked on. The ajax updates a database record and then it replaces > the 'a' tag with a new one. This all works fine. The new 'a' tag has > the same id as the old one, but text and some other properties on it > change. It's the id that activates the jQuery functionality. > > When the old 'a' tag is replaced with the new one the jQuery that > should operate doesn't work. I understand that this is because the new > 'a' tag has been added after the page loaded so jQuery doesn't know to > fire when it's clicked on. Is there anything I can do that will force > jQuery to fire when the new 'a' tag is clicked? > > I suspect this has probably been answered a million times, but I don't > just can't find the right search terms.
