JQuery - Best way of wiring GUI objects to events?

Question

Ever since JQuery came along a few years ago I\'ve been using it in all my client-side scripts. Initially I used the \'$() syntax to grab and manipulate objects this, to me,

Answer 1

I think the second approach is cleaner for several reasons :

• it really allows you to separate content and behaviour, that is you can define your content's structure first and only later take care of the specific behaviour... This is especially helpful if your team involves different technical profiles (somebody takes care of the raw HTML, somebody else is the Javascript expert ...)

• This really helps maintenance, as you know where to look for the potentially buggy javascript if something goes wrong , instead of having to look through the whole HTML.

• when your HTML is actually dynamic (generated on server-side, à la PHP or ASP.NET), it is actually quite painful to have to include those client-side elements in the HTML you generate... This is a very common source of errors, therefore it is good to have the javascript out of the way.