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Asked: 2026-05-15T22:09:19+00:00

I have web layout, which can contains several links on it. Those links are

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I have web layout, which can contains several links on it. Those links are dynamically created, using AJAX functions. And it works ok.

But, I don’t know how can I work with those “dynamically created links” (ie. how to call some JS or jQuery function if I click on them). I guess that browser can not recognize them, since there are created after page is loaded.

Is there some function, that can “re-render” my page and elements on it?

Tnx in adv on your help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the 2 following methods jQuery provides:

    The first one, is the .live() method, and the other is the .delegate() method.

    The usage of the first one is very simple:

    $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#dynamicElement").live("click", function() {
        //do something
    });
}

    As you can see, the first argument is the event you want to bind, and the second is a function which handles the event. The way this works is not exactly like a “re-rendering”. The common way to do this ( $("#dynamicElement").click(...) or $("#dynamicElement").bind("click", ...) ) works by attaching the event handler of a determinate event to the DOM Element when the DOM has properly loaded ($(document).ready(...) ). Now, obviously, this won’t work with dynamically generated elements, because they’re not present when the DOM first loads.

    The way .live() works is, instead of attaching the vent handler to the DOM Element itself, it attaches it with the document element, taking advantage of the bubbling-up property of JS & DOM (When you click the dynamically generated element and no event handler is attached, it keeps looking to the top until it finds one).

    Sounds pretty neat, right? But there’s a little technical issue with this method, as I said, it attaches the event handler to the top of the DOM, so when you click the element, your browser has to transverse all over the DOM tree, until it finds the proper event handler. Process which is very inefficient, by the way. And here’s where appears the .delegate() method.

    Let’s assume the following HTML estructure:

    <html>
<head>
...
</head>
<body>
    <div id="links-container">
        <!-- Here's where the dynamically generated content will be -->
    </div>
</body>
</html>

    So, with the .delegate() method, instead of binding the event handler to the top of the DOM, you just could attach it to a parent DOM Element. A DOM Element you’re sure it’s going to be somewhere up of the dynamically generated content in the DOM Tree. The closer to them, the better this will work. So, this should do the magic:

    $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#links-container").delegate("#dynamicElement", "click", function() {
        //do something
    });
}

    This was kind of a long answer, but I like to explain the theory behind it haha.

    EDIT: You should correct your markup, it’s invalid because: 1) The anchors does not allow the use of a value attribute, and 2) You can’t have 2 or more tags with the same ID. Try this:

    <a class="removeLineItem" id="delete-1">Delete</a> 
<a class="removeLineItem" id="delete-2">Delete</a> 
<a class="removeLineItem" id="delete-3">Delete</a>

    And to determine which one of the anchors was clicked

    $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#links-container").delegate(".removeLineItem", "click", function() {
        var anchorClicked = $(this).attr("id"),
            valueClicked = anchorClicked.split("-")[1];    
    });
}

    With that code, you will have stored in the anchorClicked variable the id of the link clicked, and in the valueClicked the number associated to the anchor.

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