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    copied!<p>I am having trouble getting an .on 'click' function to work upon AJAX loaded content.</p> <p>I have worked with the jquery .live before but this is the first time with .on and understand it works in the exact same way so unsure why I am having problems.</p> <p>Below is the HTML that gives the element to which you click on</p> <pre><code> &lt;h1&gt;Press &amp;amp; Media&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;div id="back"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="overlay-content"&gt; &lt;span id="edocs" class="tab"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span id="news" class="tab"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span id="partners" class="tab"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Below is the function that loads the AJAX content.</p> <pre><code> $("#overlay-content").on('click','#news',function() { var active = 1; $("#loading").show(); $("#overlay-content").fadeOut(1000, function() { $.get("http://&lt;? echo ROOT; ?&gt;includes/functions.php", { pressmediaNews: active }, function(data) { $("#loading").hide(400); $("#overlay-content").empty().append(data).fadeIn(1000); }); }); }); </code></pre> <p>This should load the following HTML</p> <pre><code> &lt;div id="news-left-panel"&gt; &lt;h4&gt;News Section&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li id="newsID2" class="newsYear"&gt; &lt;p&gt;2012&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul class="newsMonths" style="display:none"&gt; &lt;li&gt;Jan &lt;ul class="newsArticles" style="display:none"&gt; &lt;li onClick="newsID(2)"&gt;test&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Feb&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Mar&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li id="newsID1" class="newsYear"&gt; &lt;p&gt;2011&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul class="newsMonths" style="display:none"&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec &lt;ul class="newsArticles" style="display:none"&gt; &lt;li onClick="newsID(1)"&gt;Test&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now the above code simply wont execute, show any errors etcetera in firebug.</p> <p>So I'm a bit lost as to why it wont execute, the alert() even does not execute.</p>
 

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