Forgot to mention, your id for your anchor is invalid; it should begin
with a letter (which is why I changed it in the code above).
On Mar 7, 9:12 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can also create your html in jQuery such that you can bind your
> event at the time:
>
> $('<a>').attr({'id':'id_1','href':'#'}).addClass('test2').text('test
> again').click(function(){
> event.preventDefault();
> alert($(this).attr("id"));
>
> }).appendTo('#testing');
>
> On Mar 7, 5:19 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Miguel <miguelarc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Here's what I'm trying to do:
>
> > > Jquery:
> > > *************
> > > $(".test").click(function(event){
>
> > > event.preventDefault();
>
> > > $("#testing").html('<a href="#" class="test2" id="1">test again</
> > > a>');
>
> > > });
>
> > > $("#test2").click(function(event){
>
> > > event.preventDefault();
>
> > > alert($(this).attr("id"));
>
> > > });
>
> > It's probably just a typo but you refer to class test2 above but your
> > selector here refers to an ID test2.
>
> > > html:
> > > **************
> > > <div>
> > > <a href="#" class="test" id="1">test</a>
> > > </div>
>
> > > <div id="testing"></div>
> > > *****************
>
> > > Am I going about this all wrong?
>
> > You need to re-bind the event handler on #test2 (or .test2) because
> > it/they didn't exist when the page loaded.
>
> >http://docs.jquery.com/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_do_my_events_st...
>
> > Also note that 1.3.x has a live() function that will do what you want.
