Question

when I inject any new elements into the DOM after ko.applyBindings(); was called, then knockout won’t recognize these new elements.
I can understand why this is happening – they are just not indexed by knockout.

So, at first I thought this would be solved by just calling ko.applyBindings() again, after adding my new elements, BUT then I realized that for every ko.applyBindings() call you make, the according events get fired multiple times. So after applying five times, a click: binding will be fired five times, so this is not a desireable solution 😉

Is there anything like ko.updateBindings() or something else, to tell knockout to, well… update the element bindings?

greetings,
Chris

Answer 1

Each time you invoke ko.applyBindings the entire DOM is inspected for bindings. As a result you will get multiple bindings for each element if you do this more than once. If you just want to bind a new DOM element you can pass this element as a parameter to the applyBindings function:

ko.applyBindings(viewModelA, document.getElementById("newElement"));

See this related question:

Can you call ko.applyBindings to bind a partial view?