#9169 closed bug (wontfix)

Opened May 07, 2011 09:04PM UTC

Closed July 12, 2011 07:12PM UTC

.live fails to call handler for DOMNodeInserted

Reported by:	augustus.kling@gmail.com	Owned by:	rwaldron
Priority:	low	Milestone:	1.next
Component:	event	Version:	1.6
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

When an event handler for the

DOMNodeInserted

event is attached to the document node using

bind

, the handler gets called as expected. However when

live

is used to bind the handler, the handler is not called.

According to the documentation of

live

, it should work for “custom events as well as all JavaScript events that bubble”.

DOMNodeInserted

bubbles according to http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-type-DOMNodeInserted and should therefore be supported using

live

See http://jsfiddle.net/4tVAx/1/ for a demo. Clicking the button should give 2 lines in the console. One starting with “bind”, the other starting with “live”.

Verified with Firefox 4.0.1, Chromium 11.0.696.57 (82915) on Ubuntu 11.04 and jQuery versions 1.4.4, 1.5.2, 1.6.

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Change History (6)

Changed May 07, 2011 10:30PM UTC by rwaldron comment:1

component:	unfiled → event
owner:	→ rwaldron
priority:	undecided → low
status:	new → assigned

Changed May 07, 2011 10:35PM UTC by rwaldron comment:2

binding a live listener to an actual selector works....

http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/4tVAx/3/

Changed May 08, 2011 08:51AM UTC by augustus.kling@gmail.com comment:3

That allows for using

$('html').live

instead of

$(document).live

In the meantime I noted that

$(document).live

also fails for other event types such as

click

, too. Is it possible that

live

only works for element nodes?

Probably the initial bug description is then misleading when it names a specific event type. It seems events do bubble up to

document

(as expected) when using

bind

, but not not when using

live

Changed May 08, 2011 04:58PM UTC by timmywil comment:4

It doesn't really make sense to call $(document).live since live works by allowing the event to bubble up to the document and then distributing the event to the appropriate targets. There's no need for live in that case. It sounds like what you really want is to bind to the document.

Changed May 08, 2011 05:25PM UTC by rwaldron comment:5

I guess I should've noted in my comment that I wasn't implying a fix, but more that I only had time to try that example that I provided. More importantly, I wanted to confirm the validity of this ticket before proceeding. The docs say "Attach a handler to the event for all elements which match the current selector, now and in the future"... the keyword being "selector".

Changed July 12, 2011 07:12PM UTC by rwaldron comment:6

resolution:	→ wontfix
status:	assigned → closed

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