jQuery search results ... hover and click no longer working?

Question

So I created a couple of functions for my search autocomplete results (custom autocomplete) and while the results were static, the hover and click events worked fine...

but now that the results are dynamically being generated, my divs no longer respond to their hover and click events.

Is jQuery not seeing the divs anymore because they're dynamic? Should I be creating these events when the results are returned? It can't be that difficult...

Answer 1

If you show us some code we can be more directly useful, however I can tell you that most likely the cause of the problem you describe comes from your content being replaced dynamically, which is causing the hover and click events to be lost (read: not re-applied). Fortunately, you just need to call the $.live() method in jQuery to ensure that any time your matching elements are replaced, they will automatically be re-bound.

The $.live() function has the exact same syntax as $.bind():

$('.linkButton').live('click', function() {
    // click handler goes here
});