I've made a site that displays a user's Facebook photos. The code below appends the photos to the div "facebook-images". This part works fine. The problem I have is that the images are being appended after the Javascript code below is loaded; so the handler "fb-image" is not created when the browser reads the click function code at the bottom, therefore it does not work.
I believe I need to use jQuery on()
, but where? I've tried to put on()
everywhere in the code below. I've tried to bind with append, I've tried live (which I know is deprecated but worth a shot). Nothing is working.
Any ideas?
<div class="target">
</div>
<div id="facebook-images">
</div>
<script>
$.when(window.deferredes.fbLoaded, window.deferredes.fbLoggedIn).then(function () {
$.getJSON('https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=' + FB.getAccessToken(), function (data) {
$.each(data.data, function (i, face) {
$('#facebook-images').append("<div class='fb-image'><img src='" + face.source + "' ></div>");
});
});
});
$(".fb-image img").click(function () {
$(".target").append("<h1>hi</h1>");
});
</script>
The simplest way to fix this is to add the click handlers AFTER the images are inserted into the page.
<script>
$.when(window.deferredes.fbLoaded, window.deferredes.fbLoggedIn).then(function () {
$.getJSON('https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=' + FB.getAccessToken(), function (data) {
$.each(data.data, function (i, face) {
$('#facebook-images').append("<div class='fb-image'><img src='" + face.source + "' ></div>");
});
$(".fb-image img").click(function () {
$(".target").append("<h1>hi</h1>");
});
});
});
</script>
You can also use delegated event handling if you want. To do that, you set the event handler on a common parent that does exist at the time you run the event handling code with .on()
and you use the delegated form of .on()
by passing it a selector like this:
<script>
$.when(window.deferredes.fbLoaded, window.deferredes.fbLoggedIn).then(function () {
$.getJSON('https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=' + FB.getAccessToken(), function (data) {
$.each(data.data, function (i, face) {
$('#facebook-images').append("<div class='fb-image'><img src='" + face.source + "' ></div>");
});
});
});
$("#facebook-images").on('click', ".fb-image img", function () {
$(".target").append("<h1>hi</h1>");
});
</script>
The delegated form of .on()
works like this:
$(selector of static parent).on(event, selector that matches dynamic object, fn);