Question

I’m using expandable plugin by Brandon Aaron to auto grow my textareas in the form and it is working ok.
the problem is that I’m loading a lot of pages through ajax so I need to rebind the plugin method to the textareas loaded through ajax.

is there a way to do this kind of method calls like

$("textarea").expandable();

through live() or delegate() in jQuery. it’ll make my code much cleaner.

Answer 1

The .liveQuery plugin still has a use here, it’s not entirely replaced by jQuery core’s .live(), here’s how your example would work:

$("textarea").liveQuery(function() {
  $(this).expandable();
});

.livequery() actually watches for new elements, unlike .live() which listens for events to bubble up the DOM, they operate in very different ways.