replace innerhtml along with events
Question by user1032531
I would like to replace the innerhtml of thisOne with that of either clone1 or clone2.
I have figured out how to replace the entire thisOne element with that of the clone, but would rather not do it that way as I store data in the li element.
I also have figured out how to put a separate div tag around the clones innerhtml, clone(true) that redundant tag element, and append the redundant tag and its innerhtml into thisOne, but these seems like a waste of a tag.
I also find that html() doesn’t bring over the events, and would rather not re-declare them each time I swap the html.
Any suggestions? Thank you
<ul>
<li id="thisOne" data-attr="whatever"></li>
</ul>
<ul style="display: none">
<li id="clone1">
<a href="#" class="doSomething1">Click</a>
<button class="doSomething3">Click</button>
</li>
<li id="clone2">
<a href="#" class="doSomething2">Click</a>
<button class="doSomething4">Click</button>
</li>
</ul>
....
$("clone1 a").click(function(){alert("hi");});
The following new code added doesn’t appear to work.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Dialogs</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.js" language="javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#cloneIt").click(function(){$('#newLocation').html($('#clone').html());});
$("#clone a").on("click", function(){alert("click");});
$("#clone select").on("change", function(){alert("change");});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" value="Clone it" id="cloneIt" />
<div id="newLocation"></div>
<div id="clone" style="display: none">
<a href="#">Click Me</a>
<select><option>Hello</option><option>Goodby</option></select>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Answer by ocanal
you can iterate children, than append cloned each one to thisOne
$("#clone1, #clone2").each(function() {
$(this).children().each(function() {
$("#thisOne").append($(this).clone(true));
});
});
Answer by Starx
You have to delegate the event so that it waits future occurrences of the selector as well.
It very easy like this
$("#clone1 a").on("click", function(){alert("hi");});
