Firefox has events for node insertion etc: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM_Events but they are not available to IE, and can incur in significant overhead for the page.
If you're in control of the whole app's code, couldn't you just add a callback for when a widget is added? On Apr 5, 2:08 am, will <willthem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to bind a function to the body element of a document that > will fire any time any part of the page's DOM changes. > > $("body").change() doesn't seem to do it. It does for some changes but > not all. In particular, not when HTML or element attributes are added/ > removed. Sorta key! It does trigger when a jEditable element is > "saved". > > What I'm trying to accomplish, in case some one can suggest another > way: I'm making something sort of like iGoogle. When some one adds or > edits a widget, I want to let them know the page contains changes and > they orta think about saving it. Autosave isn't really an option as > this app will save multiple pages. > > I'd appreciate any insight. > > Will