Question

I’m attempting to addClass to an href, and then later run a function on that new class.

The problem is once the class is added, I can not get any js to work on it.

Here’s a fiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/3hp9f/2/

Answer 1

You are attaching the a.live event handler before the object has the class, move the handler inside the first one, ie

$("a.theLink").click(function(){
    $(this).addClass("live");
    $("a.live").click(function(){
         alert("YO!");
         return false;
     });
    return false;
});

This is not the best way but I hope it shows you what is wrong.