jQuery's .on() for jQuery TimeAgo

Question

I\'m looking for a way to trigger the .timeago() function on new $(\"abbr.timeago\" elements inserted dynamically into the page. Right now this is

Answer 1

on won't help with this. You can use on to bind an event handler to something which is always on the page so that an event can be triggered on an element not on the page at the time of binding. In this case, it's a little different.

I've solved this before by simply running $("abbr.timeago").timeago() again when I know things have changed.