Event delegation and adding event handlers to new elements are actually two different things.
The event delegation works without any changes. So if you put a "click" event on a table and click a "td" then the table's click event will be triggered too. The automatic event handler adding uses the "live" and "die" functions: http://docs.jquery.com/Events Karl Rudd On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Sam H <samh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > John Resig said of 1.3: > > "I only posted last week about how event delegation can help you to > optimize your code and it looks like jQuery will do it for you now, > which means that any event handlers you add to a group of elements > will automatically be added to matching elements when you create > them." > > Yet I'm not seeing this functionality. Within my $(document).ready() > func, I do this: > > $('.do_it').click(function() { ...stuff... }); > > Yet if I dynamically create new items using class="do_it", the above > function is not automatically attached to them. I have to once again, > after dynamically creating new items, perform the $('.do_it').click() > again. > > I thought 1.3 was supposed to eliminate this. Am I doing something > wrong?
