So I want to be able to figure out which part of my page has been clicked. There is no guarantee the elements are all on the page from the get go, which means that I need to
I don't see any need to use jQuery for something like this, though my suggestion does rely on MutationEvents, which I understand are to be replaced.
You can get notified upon the insertion of any new node into the DOM. In the callback that fires, you can trivially attach an onclick handler to the new node. I've only handled the case where new nodes are added.