[development] Using Drupal.(attach)behaviors instead of .live

[Anthony Malkoun]

My understanding is that Drupal.behaviours is just like .ready.  I don't 
understand your distinction between ajax and js, the J in ajax stands 
for javascript.  But at any rate, if you're doing something on an 
element that doesn't exist yet, then that's what .live is for.  Just put 
that in your js that is in your page on the element you're expecting.  
All .live really does is use event bubbling and event delegation to 
capture the event on a containing element.

On 6:59 AM, jeff at ayendesigns.com wrote:
> In the case where there will be a popup opening on a page (not sure if 
> it will be via ajax or js yet) and I need a function to fire when the 
> popup closes, will Drupal.behaviors <http://Drupal.behaviors> act like 
> .live in that it will bind the function to the event at the time that 
> the selector becomes available (read: the popup eventually exists) ?  
> I was thinking perhaps this is where attachbehaviors is supposed to be 
> used, but that, I think, implies that I can alter the code that 
> creates the popup, and I cannot...I just need to 'hook' into its close 
> event.
>
> Jeff