Added a comment and a link to a plain JS test at the bug tracker: http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4867
On Jul 14, 3:16 am, Ricardo <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Came back to review this and think I got a proper explanation for your > issue. You are hitting a strange "loop" (not a loop, but couldn't find > a better word). The event only bubbles up AFTER the current element's > handler has been executed. So, after initState1 in .blk_type finishes > (and adds a new handler to #blk_1), the "old" event fired by .blk_date > (which doesn't exist at this point anymore, but the event is still > bubbling) hits #blk_1. Am I confused? you bet. Let's see it in detail: > > 1. initState1 is called. > > initState2 is bound to #blk_1 > > text == STATE1. > > 2. click - initState2 fires from #blk_1. > > initState2 is unbound from #blk_1 > > div.blk_type added > > text == STATE2; > > initState1 is bound to .blk_type > > click event bubbles up from #blk_1 (reaches no handlers) > > 3. click - initState1 fires from .blk_type > > initState1 is unbound from .blk_type > > div.blk_type removed > > text == 'STATE1'; > > initState2 is bound to #blk_1 > > click event bubbles up from .blk_type and * reaches #blk_1 * > > initState2 (now bound to #blk_1) is fired -> step 2 > > So what happens is that you never see step 3 here, but it is > happening. As my (lucky) test showed, returning false or calling > e.stopPropagation() inside initState1 prevents this from happening. > > This is mind-bending logic anyway, you can't blame the computer for > causing this :D For a start, the sample could be written as > > $('#blk_1').toggle(function () { > $(this).html( "STATE1" ); > }, function () { > $(this).html( '<div class="blk_type">STATE2</div>' ); > > }); > > And many other better ways, so it's likely that your application can > also be restructured to something less prone to errors. Sorry for the > long message! > > cheers > -- ricardo > > On Jul 9, 1:48 pm, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <djacobfeuerb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Jul 9, 6:20 am, Ricardo <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You're binding the second event to the inner element - when you click > > > it, the event bubbles up to #blk_1, so *both* handlers are triggered. > > > Try this:http://pastebin.com/m44c1cffd > > > But I explicitly unbind() the previous events before binding the new > > one. So there is always just one binding active so I'm don't see how > > that event can bubble up? > > > > Anyway, the way you're doing it doesn't make sense. You should just > > > use live() for the inserted elements and return false/e.preventDefault > > > () to stop bubbling. > > > The actual script is more complex. This version is simplified to > > illustrate the problem. > > > > On Jul 8, 8:12 am, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <djacobfeuerb...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > live() version:http://pastebin.com/f5781ee8b > > > > > The live() version works...as long as you don't introduce a second > > > > block. > > > > > In this example "blk_1" and "blk_2" can be independently between > > > > STATE1 and STATE2 as long as you make sure that the last click > > > > switches a block to STATE1 before you modify the other block. If you > > > > switch a block to STATE2 and then modify the other block then the > > > > initial block can no longer be switched back and forth. Apparently the > > > > die() removes the handler from both blocks despite only adressing the > > > > "own" block using a selector like e.g. "#blk_1 .blk_type". > > > > > Again if you replace the "'#'+block_id+' .blk_type'" bits by > > > > "'#'+block_id" so that the handler is no longer attached to the > > > > dynamically inserted html but the outer static div around it the > > > > example starts working as it should. > > > > > This is problematic since what I'm actually trying to do is to get > > > > html code from the server via ajax that represents a panel with > > > > buttons and I then need to attach a click handler to these buttons > > > > which will then again send an ajax request to the server. > > > > > I have no idea how to implement something like this if I cannot insert > > > > html with html() and then attach event handler to the inserted > > > > elements. > > > > > On Jul 8, 5:06 am, Ralph Whitbeck <ralph.whitb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Have you tried using live instead of bind? > > > > > >http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live#typefn > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn < > > > > > > djacobfeuerb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >http://pastebin.com/f6990228d > > > > > > > In this code clicking on the text should change it between "STATE1" > > > > > > and "STATE2" but doesn't. It actually does switch to STATE1 again > > > > > > but > > > > > > due to a spurious "click" event immediately switches back to STATE2 > > > > > > so > > > > > > that the switch can't be really seen. Uncommenting the commented > > > > > > javascript line and commenting the one above it no longer uses > > > > > > html() > > > > > > and show the correct behavior. > > > > > > > Is this a bug or am I doing something fundamentally wrong here? > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Dennis > > > > > > > PS: I filed a bug here:http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4867 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. 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