jQuery selector not working

Question

im having some wierd problems with selecting an element with a class.
in my case i have this AJAX query, that returns some links with the same class. when i click the link an event should happend, but it didn't.

then i tried with makeing it alert when the an element with the class had been clicked, nothing happends, then i try to make a direct link on the page with the same class, now it gives me the alert..

what is happening ? the ajax query checks if the user is online, and does this every 1 minute, the element has the class "friend" and i try to call it by this code:

$('.friend').click(function(){
    alert('clicked');
});

nothing happends with the ones displayed by the ajax request. but it responds to the links put directly onto the site.

Answer 1

Try using live:

$('.friend').live('live',function(){
    alert('clicked');
});

It will append that handler to items that exist and items that will exist with that selector.