Ajax loaded nested list Can't get event from inner - jquery-ui

Question

We have this nested list:
<ul id="AllTopics" data-role="listview" data-inset="true" data-filter="true" data-filter-placeholder="Search topic...">
<li>Polite Phrases<span class="ui-li-count">101</span>
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true" >
<li >Polite Phrases<span class="ui-li-count">101</span></li>
<li >At The End Of A Letter/Email<span class="ui-li-count">101</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
The first <ul> with the id="AllTopics" is in the html documnet itself,
The inner <li><ul><li>... are loaded from Ajax call like:
on('pageinit'... event
... $("ul").append(...
I can get the event from the first new born <li> , like:
$('#AllTopics').on('click','li',function (event){...
But the inner <li> or <a> do not seem to fire events :-(
Ani ideas ?
Thank's in advance

Answer 1

The problem would be that the new content is loaded using an Ajax call, and you just setup the events before, so the new elements won't have them.
Try using delegate JQuery function:
$('#AllTopics').delegate('li a','click',function(){
alert('How you dare to click on my links?!');
});
EDIT
Other solution is to assign the events once elements are added via Ajax call.
// This is an example, retrieve the data on your own form
$.get('mypage.php',function(data){
// Add content to your DOM elements
$('#AllTopics').append(data);
// Assign events
$('#AllTopics').on('click','li',function (event){
alert('Holy moly, you keep clicking on my links!');
});
});
Note: I just realized that your HTML elements have this composition:
<ul>
<li>
<a/>
</li>
<span/>
<ul>
<li>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
So, OF COURSE that is only affecting the first one because there are two levels of li - a (you have an ul element inside another one). You can define an ID for your second group of li - a elements to trigger events successfully or keep doing it in this way:
$('#AllTopics').delegate('li a','click',function(){
alert('How you dare to click on the first link?!');
});
$('#AllTopics').delegate('ul li a','click',function(){
alert('Stop clicking my children links!');
});