Question

For example if I have a link with the following event bound to it:

$("a.d").bind("click", this, onDelete);

And later do:

$("a.d").remove();

Is that fine? Or does it cause a memory leak and I need to call unbind 1st?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I haven’t tested it, but I believe that removing an element will unbind its event handlers. I come to this conclusion from the jQuery API documentation (search for remove) which states that if you want to move an element from one part of the DOM to another that:

$("#foo").remove().appendTo("#bar");

should be written as

$("#foo").appendTo("#bar");

to avoid losing the event handlers.