jQuery not preserving event handlers after replacing inner HTML of a table
I've searched everywhere and can't find a clear answer. I'm working on a personal project and I'm facing an issue where I am dynamically updating the inner HTML of a table using jQuery, but it seems that all the event handlers previously assigned to the rows are lost after the update... I'm using jQuery 3.6.0 and trying to keep the click event handlers intact. Here's a simplified version of what I'm doing: ```javascript // Initial table creation with event binding $(document).ready(function() { $('#myTable').html('<tr><td>Row 1</td></tr><tr><td>Row 2</td></tr>'); $('#myTable tr').on('click', function() { alert($(this).text()); }); }); // Later in the code, updating table contents function updateTable() { $('#myTable').html('<tr><td>Row 3</td></tr><tr><td>Row 4</td></tr>'); } // Call the update function updateTable(); ``` After calling `updateTable()`, clicking on any of the new rows does not trigger the alert. I expected that the same click handler would apply to the new rows as well, but it appears that jQuery does not automatically bind the handlers to newly added elements when using `.html()` to replace the content. I've tried using `.on('click', ...)` on the `#myTable` instead, but it seems like that won't work because the table rows are not present when the event is bound. Is there a better way to handle this situation without having to re-bind the events every time I update the table? Is there a recommended pattern for dynamically updating content while preserving event handlers in jQuery? Any help or insights would be much appreciated! Is there a better approach? I'm working on a API that needs to handle this. What am I doing wrong?