Re: [jQuery] Re: Selector issue

2009-12-04 Thread Karl Swedberg
The .live() method uses event delegation under the hood. doing this: $('a').live('click', function() { // do something }); is like doing this: $(document).bind('click', function(event) { if ($(event.target).closest('a').length) { // do something } }); except that with .live() the sel

Re: [jQuery] Re: Selector issue

2009-12-04 Thread Karl Swedberg
On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:09 AM, MorningZ wrote: I wouldn't suggest going the ".live" route if you plan on having a lot of children of "cat_list" using event delegation, there is one single event wired up that handles 1 child or 1200 children using ".live", you would have N number of events s