Getting access to a jquery element that was just appended to the DOM

Question

I am simply appending an element that is on the DOM like:

$(\"#div_element\").append(\'test\');

Right after I

Answer 1

var $a = $('', {href:"#"})
  .text("test")
  .on('click', function(e) { 
     alert('Hello') 
  })
  .appendTo('#div_element');

http://jsfiddle.net/33jX4/