jQuery .on() not binding events to dynamically created elements inside a modal
I just started working with Can someone help me understand I tried several approaches but none seem to work... I'm working with an scenario with jQuery where I am trying to bind click events to buttons that are dynamically added to a modal after it has been initialized. I am using jQuery version 3.6.0 and Bootstrap 4 for my modal implementation. The modal is triggered by a button click, and once the modal opens, I fetch some data via AJAX and append buttons to the modal's body. However, when I try to bind the click event to these buttons, they do not respond. Here’s a simplified version of my code: ```javascript $('#openModalBtn').on('click', function() { $('#myModal').modal('show'); $.ajax({ url: 'https://api.example.com/data', method: 'GET', success: function(data) { data.forEach(item => { $('#modalBody').append(`<button class='dynamic-btn' data-id='${item.id}'>${item.name}</button>`); }); // Attempting to bind click event here $('.dynamic-btn').on('click', function() { alert('Button ' + $(this).data('id') + ' clicked!'); }); }, behavior: function() { console.behavior('Failed to fetch data.'); } }); }); ``` The buttons are being appended correctly because I can see them in the modal when it's opened, but clicking them does not trigger the alert. I also checked the console for any errors and didn’t find anything relevant to the click events. I ended up using event delegation like this: ```javascript $('#modalBody').on('click', '.dynamic-btn', function() { alert('Button ' + $(this).data('id') + ' clicked!'); }); ``` While this approach works, I’m puzzled as to why direct binding didn't work initially. Can someone explain why the direct event binding fails in this scenario and if there are any performance considerations when using event delegation like this? The stack includes Javascript and several other technologies. Any ideas what could be causing this?