jQuery live handler but for each()?

Question

I know that live() can be used to support event handlers for current AND "added later" DOM elements.

I wonder how to do the same thing with each()?

Like if I have $('.something_or_other').each() but then another DOM element with class="something_or_other" gets added? How can I set it up to automatically apply the each iteration to this new DOM element?

OR, what can I call after adding the new DOM element to reapply the each() rules.

(Showing my age a bit here but in Behaviour we can use Behaviour.apply() to reapply ALL of the rules!)

Answer 1

Why can't you just bind the functionality to the ajax callback that appends the DOM elements to the doc? Seems the shortest and most logical route to me.

Answer 2

As @meder noted, you should really just do this manually. You can use the same function for both if you like.

function myFunction(i,val) {
    $(this).doSomething;
}

$('someSelector').each( myFunction );

$.ajax({
    url:'/some/path/',
    success: function( data ) {
        $(data).find('someSelector').each( myFunction )
               .end().appendTo('body');
    }
});

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If you really don't want to do that, there's a plugin called livequery that will run code when an element that matches a selector is added to (or removed from) the DOM.

It costs a bit of extra overhead, but it is an option.

http://brandonaaron.net/code/livequery/docs