Handling Event Delegation with Dynamic Elements in React - Events Not Firing as Expected
I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock. Hey everyone, I'm running into an issue that's driving me crazy. I just started working with I'm working on a personal project and I'm working on a React application where I'm trying to implement event delegation for dynamically created list items. However, I'm working with an scenario where click events aren't firing for these dynamically added elements. The list of items is populated from an API call, and I initially render them with a simple map function. I thought that using a single event listener on a parent element would be enough, but it seems like the events aren't being captured. Here’s what I have so far: ```javascript import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react'; const ItemList = () => { const [items, setItems] = useState([]); useEffect(() => { const fetchData = async () => { const response = await fetch('https://api.example.com/items'); const data = await response.json(); setItems(data); }; fetchData(); }, []); const handleClick = (event) => { const target = event.target; if (target.matches('.item')) { console.log('Item clicked:', target.textContent); } }; return ( <div onClick={handleClick} className="item-list"> {items.map(item => ( <div key={item.id} className="item"> {item.name} </div> ))} </div> ); }; export default ItemList; ``` Despite the setup, when I click on the dynamically created items, nothing happens. I expected the `handleClick` function to log the clicked item's name, but it seems to be completely ignored. I’m not getting any console errors, which makes debugging even harder. I have tried moving the event listener to the individual item elements instead of the parent div, and that works, but it feels inefficient. I also checked to ensure that the items are being rendered correctly and that they have the expected class name. Any insights on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated! I'm developing on macOS with Javascript. Am I missing something obvious? Any examples would be super helpful.