It's not that I prefer it. I think live()/die() makes sense because
the event "lives on" for all matching selectors. What the true
arguement would do it give a way to clone the element and it's handler
just that one time.
On Jan 27, 10:50 am, Eric Garside <gars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Give them a different selector?
>
> $('.click1').live('click', function(){});
> $('.click2').live('click', function(){});
>
> Would handle the problem easily. Remember, you can always add extra,
> non-style based classes which you can use as selectors for events or
> effects.
>
> Also, I'm not sure I understand your objection. If I understand
> correctly, you're saying you'd prefer:
>
> var span = $('<span>Click me</span>').click(function(){}, true);
> $('ul li').append(span);
>
> Instead of:
> $('ul li span').live('click', function(){});
> $('ul li').append('<span>Click me</span>');
>
> The live syntax is, at least in this example, shorter, more efficient,
> cleaner, and easier to use. Perhaps it's just that I'm not
> understanding a situation in which I'd run into trouble using it over
> an object, kept in memory, with a forced clone(true) bound to it. Can
> you think of any?
>
> On Jan 27, 10:36 am, jay <jay.ab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > live() works, but it involves extra steps. For example something like
> > el.click(fn,true) maybe be easier to remember for some. Also live
> > differs from what I was thinking in that it continues to bind events
> > to the handler based on the selector. I was thinking it should only
> > be cloned that one time (with the event handlers included). What if,
> > for some reason, elements of a different type were added to the same
> > "container", but had a different functionality? live() wouldn't
> > necessarily be what you would want.
>
> > On Jan 27, 10:15 am, Eric Garside <gars...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Perhaps there should be an optional boolean passed to the event
> > > > handlers to specify carrying over event handlers like there is with
> > > > the clone() method?
>
> > > There is. That's exactly what live() does. You just define it before
> > > runtime.
>
> > > On Jan 27, 10:06 am, jay <jay.ab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > It actually makes sense, because you've only created one element here:
>
> > > > var handle = $('<span>Click me</span>');
>
> > > > By doing append() on a set of elements using this one element, it may
> > > > be implying you would like to clone this element for the elements
> > > > after the first one, but it's not completely obvious. Something that
> > > > may make more sense is that the one element ends up in the very last
> > > > <li>. Perhaps there should be an optional boolean passed to the event
> > > > handlers to specify carrying over event handlers like there is with
> > > > the clone() method?
>
> > > > On Jan 27, 9:48 am, errant <d.cheka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi Eric, thanks for response.
>
> > > > > Yes, it works that way, but it's kind of unflexible and may be
> > > > > impossible to implement when dealing with more complex code, don't you
> > > > > think?
>
> > > > > On 27 янв, 17:29, Eric Garside <gars...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > I believe it has to do with the new event propogation model
> > > > > > implemented with 1.3
>
> > > > > > Instead, try using a living event:
>
> > > > > > <ul>
> > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > </ul>
>
> > > > > > $('ul li span').live('click', function(){
> > > > > > // ...
>
> > > > > > });
>
> > > > > > $('ul li').append('<span>Click me</span>');
>
> > > > > > That should work.
>
> > > > > > On Jan 27, 8:15 am, errant <d.cheka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Here is the code:
>
> > > > > > > HTML:
>
> > > > > > > <ul>
> > > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > > <li></li>
> > > > > > > </ul>
>
> > > > > > > JS:
>
> > > > > > > $(function(){
>
> > > > > > > var handle = $('<span>Click me</span>');
> > > > > > > handle.click(function() {
> > > > > > > alert('Thanks');
> > > > > > > });
> > > > > > > $('ul li').append(handle);
>
> > > > > > > });
>
> > > > > > > With jQuery 1.2.6, each time I click on any list's element it
> > > > > > > shows
> > > > > > > alert. With 1.3.1 in FF3, Safari 3 & Opera 9.63 alert is only
> > > > > > > displaying when I click on first element. In IE6,7 everything is
> > > > > > > ok.
> > > > > > > Is this some kind of bug?- Hide quoted text -
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