Learning jQuery Live and Die Methods

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Brief history of event delegation methods live and die. The live method binds events to document so if the page changes the events will still work. The problem is that document is the worst element to bind to because it has to walk all the way up the page Don’t use live and die anymore. The methods are deprecated as of jQuery 1.7 and don’t work with traversal Event delegation methods delegate and undelegate. Binding event handler to containing element after document is ready

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