Question

I have some code that works fine in FF but not in IE. I have read other posts saying that the Jquery live method does not support change events but I am using a click event. Here is my code, it is inside $(document).ready(function():

$("a").live("click", function(e) { 
        alert("link clicked");
        //do stuff
    });

If FF the alert is fired but not in IE. When I use $(“a”).click it works fine, the problem is that I need to the function to be applied to links that do not exist when the page is first loaded (they will be created via ajax calls at a later stage).

Do I have any options here. We are using jquery-1.4.1.min.js.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

if those links are within a specific content, you can use:

$('#link_container_id').delegate('a', 'click', function(e){
   alert('link clicked');
});

.delegate() will watch if there are any events (click in your case) bubbling up, if so it checks for the target and compares it to ‘a’ in your case. Should work, but untested.