jQuery - cannot bind events to dynamic elements?

Question

I\'ve come to maintain a piece of javascript that downloads some JSON data from the server, builds a new table row (like $(\') and inserts i

Answer 1

Two things come to my mind:

1. The link has no text so you are not clicking it.
2. You aren't even appending it to the dom.

Here there is a fiddle that works with code very similar to yours.

var a = $('ASD');

a.click(function() {
    alert('a');
});

a.appendTo($("body"));