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I'm curious to know the differences between the bind and live functions.
To me they seem to be almost identical.
I read the benefits of live/bind methods, but it didn't tell me about the differences...
Thanks!
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on() method: This method attaches events not only to existing elements but also for the ones appended in the future as well. The difference here between on() and live() function is that on() method is still supported and uses a different syntax pattern, unlike the above two methods.
jQuery bind() Method The bind() method attaches one or more event handlers for selected elements, and specifies a function to run when the event occurs.
jQuery bind() function is used to attach an event handler to elements, while the unbind() is used to detached an existing event handler from elements.
In short: .bind() will only apply to the items you currently have selected in your jQuery object. .live() will apply to all current matching elements, as well as any you might add in the future.
The underlying difference between them is that live() makes use of event bubbling. That is, when you click on a button, that button might exist in a <p>, in a <div>, in a <body> element; so in effect, you're actually clicking on all of those elements at the same time.
live() works by attaching your event handler to the document, not to the element. When you click on that button, as illustrated before, the document receives the same click event. It then looks back up the line of elements targeted by the event and checks to see if any of them match your query.
The outcome of this is twofold: firstly, it means that you don't have to continue reapplying events to new elements, since they'll be implicitly added when the event happens. However, more importantly (depending on your situation), it means that your code is much much lighter! If you have 50 <img> tags on the page and you run this code:
$('img').click(function() { /* doSomething */ });
...then that function is copied into each of those elements. However, if you had this code:
$('img').live('click', function() { /* doSomething */ });
...then that function is stored only in one place (on the document), and is applied to whatever matches your query at event time.
Because of this bubbling behaviour though, not all events can be handled this way. As Ichiban noted, these supported events are click, dblclick mousedown, mouseup, mousemove, mouseover, mouseout, keydown, keypress, keyup.
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.bind() attacheds events to elements that exist or match the selector at the time the call is made. Any elements created afterwards or that match going forward because the class was changed, will not fire the bound event.
.live() works for existing and future matching elements. Before jQuery 1.4 this was limited to the following events: click, dblclick mousedown, mouseup, mousemove, mouseover, mouseout, keydown, keypress, keyup
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