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jQuery .click() event not triggering on dynamically added elements with event delegation

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I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock... I am working with an scenario where a `.click()` event handler isn't firing for buttons that are added to the DOM dynamically. I'm using jQuery 3.6.0, and my code looks like this: ```javascript $(document).ready(function() { $('#addButton').click(function() { $('#dynamicContainer').append('<button class="dynamicButton">Click me!</button>'); }); // Event handler for dynamically added buttons $('.dynamicButton').click(function() { alert('Button clicked!'); }); }); ``` When I click the "Add Button" to add a new button to the `#dynamicContainer`, I can see the button appearing, but clicking on it doesn't trigger the alert. I've tried moving the click event handler inside the `.click()` function that adds the button, but that doesn't work either. I even tried using event delegation like this: ```javascript $(document).on('click', '.dynamicButton', function() { alert('Button clicked!'); }); ``` But I still don't see the alert when I click the dynamically added buttons. I suspect that the event delegation might not be set up correctly. Is there something I'm missing in how I'm applying the event handler or a best practice that I'm overlooking? Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated! My development environment is Ubuntu. Is there a better approach?