Question

So I am making a complex project management system that is build completely in AJAX. With hash navigation the site loads and removes a lot of HTML and adds a lot of event listeners on each load.

My question is, does modern browsers garbage collect the event listeners after those elements have been $.remove’d.

If not, is it better to use onclick=”doFunction();” instead to prevent adding event listeners? I rather not do it this way, but if it will prevent memory leaks it might be the best option.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

No, it is better to add event listeners using jQuery, because jQuery deals with possible memory leaks.