jQuery event not working on dynamically loaded elements

Question

I am loading an element through jQuery AJAX whose id is questionBeanPV.coAppQuestions150.answerText I know the id is too long and it contains jQuery's '.' but i cannot change the id.

I want a funnction to be called when this element is clicked. However the following code is not working.

$(document).ready(function(){       
    $('#questionBeanPV\\.coAppQuestions150\\.answerText').click(function(){
        alert('Hello !');
    });
});

I have observed that this doesnt work for any dynamically loaded element. What am i missing ? Is this the correct way or some other way is there?

The event listener should be attached to the document, so any new elements that created after attaching the listener can be considered to fire the event. — MaveRick, Mar 10 '14 at 14:39

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 14:35

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You can use event delegation here:

$('body').on('click', '#questionBeanPV\\.coAppQuestions150\\.answerText', function() {
    alert('Hello !');
});

This technique will helps you to attach any event to dynamically created elements.

answered Mar 10 '14 at 14:35

Felix

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Maybe you'd post another question with relevant code. We'll try to help you :-) – Felix Mar 10 '14 at 15:51
here ---> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22303650/jquery-autocomplete-not-working-on-dynamically-loaded-elements? – Abhishek Singh Mar 11 '14 at 05:39
This might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2663573/jquery-autocomplete-for-dynamically-created-inputs – Felix Mar 11 '14 at 05:43

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 14:37

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you should use delegate for that

$(document).on("click","#questionBeanPV\\.coAppQuestions150\\.answerText",function(){
   //some operation
});

It helps you to attach handlers for the future elements

answered Mar 10 '14 at 14:37

Anoop Joshi P

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 14:35

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Use event delegation:

$(document).on("click", "#questionBeanPV\\.coAppQuestions150\\.answerText", function() {

answered Mar 10 '14 at 14:35

tymeJV

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