Yes, there is. There is a technique called event delegation which consists of exactly that.
the Delegate plugin does it: http://www.danwebb.net/2008/2/8/event-delegation-made-easy-in-jquery as does LiveQuery in its own way: http://brandonaaron.net/docs/livequery/ google 'event delegation' and you should get boatloads of information. - ricardo On Dec 18, 1:12 pm, fambi <fambizz...@tm4b.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there some kind of performance cost in setting up lots of event > listeners? > > For example, rather than setting up lots of click event listeners, > would it be better to set up a single one which then uses if/else to > decide how to process it? Obviously, it might not always be practical, > but I'm just after the theory side of things right now. > > Thanks. > > F.
