Question

I am designing webpage using jquery and php. My page has side menu, and clicking one of the option it send a request to server to read some information from file and it will create a form out of it, with submit and other button edit(in case anybody wants to change the information in that form) and send this html back to client. I am able to do this successfully. But when I click on the edit button it actually not calling the click handler I registered for the all the buttons.

$('button').click(function(){
  alert("click event");
 });

I included this in the

jQuery(document).ready(function() {

But because all the jquery/js code in ready() and it gets executed at the page load time, its not able to find these buttons in form because its something which i get from server after loading and replacing it to existing ‘div’ and hence its not able to invoke the event handler. If I define click handler for the parent div of this form, it receives the click event if I click ‘edit’ button because that ‘div’ was present when initial page got loaded. I might not be doing it correctly, may be getting the whole form from server is not a good idea, if you have to do some operation on the form at client side. But is it doable? if yes then whats the possible way out?. Thanks!

Answer 1

Your event isn’t firing because you define it prior to the element existing on the page. Using the .on() method should fix this. Something along the lines of:

$('body').on('click','button', function(){
    alert("click event");
});

should work.