Adding event listeners to current and future elements with a particular class

Question

With JQuery, is it possible to add an event listener to any element that currently, or will in the future, have a particular class?

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Answer 1

you'll want to use event delegation. jquery 1.7 has made this more abstract than previous versions, but it looks something like this:

$("#myWrappingElement").on("click", ".myclass", function(event){
    alert($(this).text());
});

this basically adds a click event listener to the #myWrappingElement element, and jquery will automagically look to see what the original event target was and fire the proper function. this means you can add or remove .myclass elements and still have events fire on them.