Question

I know in jQuery that there’s the function live() to suscribe to events as soon as an element appears. I just want to do something to an element as soon as it appears. I tried suscribing the elements to the “load” event but it doesn’t work. How do you go about that?

Answer 1

If you control the code which creates and appends elements, you could trigger a custom event and handle it in a handler later.

Example

$('#add').click(function() {
    $('#container').append($('<div>Hello! I am a new div</div>')).trigger('div-added');
});

$('#container').bind('div-added', function() {
    alert('A div has been added');
});