How to translate jQuery .live() to .on() with events bound to this?

Question

I\'m in the process of converting code from the deprecated .live() API to .on() (see the jQuery 1.7 release notes)

I have live events attached

Answer 1

Give this a shot:

$(document).on('click', this.selector, handler);

A jQuery object has a selector property that represents the selector used to create that object.

Note that the selector is modified with traversal methods, so I would assume that your plugin is generally used upon initial DOM selection.

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To avoid using an internal property, you could simply change the API of your plugin to require a selector to be passed explicitly.