I O U 1 mate that seems to have solved two problems in one go, thought that maybe both might do that same in the end but your final solution is more correct, before I was getting multiple answers somehow, now I get what I want,
nice one On 22 Feb, 22:45, Frederik Ring <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, so now I think I get what you want to do - I was running around > wondering why you had the preventDefault() in there. > > In your case the click event isn't bound to the <a> but to your > #wiki_article_list since you are chaining it after the append(). > > If you would do it like: > > $( '#wiki_article_list' ).append( '<li><a class="wikiLinks"href="'+url > +'">'+title+'</a></li>' ); > $('#wiki_article_list).children('li:last').children('a').click(function > ( event ){ > //whatever > > }); > > you'd have the "this" you expected in the first place!
