How to create click event for specific link in a jQuery listview.

Question

I\'m trying to create a function that starts when you click on a specific link in a listview. The issue is that event doesn\'t seem to fire when you click the link. The lis

Answer 1

You have to do event delegation for dynamically added elements.

    $('"#listviewForLastTenCalls"').on("click",'li' ,function(){
       alert('triggered');
    });

And why on() works ??

Event handlers are bound only to the currently selected elements; they must exist on the page at the time your code makes the call to .on().