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EventListener not working with anchor tel:XXXXXXXXX

I have a tag with href="tel:XXXXXXXXX", and I need catch the click event.
I have tested the following code on chrome: $(document).on('click',console.log). If i click on this tag browser it calls the application, but does not trigger a click event.
$("a[href^='tel']").on('click', console.log);
This is working, but I my have a problem with content load by ajax. My code has loaded a page and after some time application added content by ajax. When i use $(document).on('click', ("a[href^='tel']", console.log), there is a problem.

$("a[href^='tel']").on("click", function(e){
e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation();
console.log(this);
alert(this.getAttribute("href"));
})
//or if you want to delegate your function
$(document).on('click', "a[href^='tel']", function(e){
e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation();
console.log(this);
alert(this.getAttribute("href"));
});
This will bind an event listener to all click on a tags with a href attribute and prevent the click itself. After click, you'll be able to use your console to see which element was click and what href was used.

Ok, i found resolve.
I use earlier event "mousedown" and change attr "href" to "only number" for disable action click.
Code:
const click2dial_Event = function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
let a = $(this), number;
if (a.attr('href') !== '#') {
number = a.attr('href');
number = number.substr(4);
a.attr('href', '#');
a.attr('data-dial', number)
a.addClass('click-to-dial');
} else {
number = a.attr('data-dial');
}
//...
};
$(document).on('mousedown', "a[href^='tel']", click2dial_Event);
$(document).on('mousedown', '.click-to-dial', click2dial_Event);

This would get the phone number from the a tag starting with a value of tel upon clicking it.
$("a[href^='tel']").on("click", function(e) {
var hrefText = this.getAttribute("href");
var str = hrefText;
var res = str.split(":");
alert(res[1]);
});

On Initial Load
I would first recommend that you wait for the initial DOM to be ready before binding any events to elements.
// DOM ready shorthand
$(function() {
$("a[href^='tel']").on('click', function(e) {
// Do work here
});
});
AJAX Content
If you are adding additional elements after the initial load you will have to bind events to those new elements as well.
You could also do something like adding a data attribute to the elements that you've bound click events to and only add to ones that don't yet have that data attribute - but that's additional unnecessary work.
Full Example Code
// DOM Ready Shorthand
$(function() {
// Click Handler
function clickEvent(e) {
// Do work here
}
// Bind click event to initial tels
$("a[href^='tel']").on('click', clickEvent);
// Arbitrary AJAX request for demonstration (wherever yours may be)
$.ajax('/newContent')
.done(function(html) {
// Adding our response HTML to the page within #someElement
$('#someElement').append(html);
// Bind click event to the new tel elements scoped to the returned html
$("a[href^='tel']", html).on('click', clickEvent);
});
});

'.on' click not running function?

I have a function that when it runs new markup is generated on the fly...
$('.search input[type="image"]').on('click', function(){
// Open directions in a map
if($('#TXT_SAddr').val() === ''){
return false;
$('.directions .search').css('background' , '#ff0000');
} else {
var from = $('#TXT_SAddr').val();
var to = $('.postal-code').html();
var directions = 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=' + from + '&daddr=' + to + '&output=embed';
var modal = '<div class="apply-modal modal"><a class="close-apply-now" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><img src="http://site.co.uk/images/closeModal.png" alt="Close" style="border-width:0px;"></a><div class="holder"><iframe src="'+directions+'" style="border:none; width:100%; height:500px;" border="0"></iframe></div></div>';
$('body').prepend('<div class="modalOverlay"/>' + modal);
$('.modal').animate({
'opacity': 1,
'top': '100px'
}, 700, 'easeOutBack');
}
return false;
});
If you can see, the above generates a div with an anchor under the class name of 'close-apply-now'.
I now want to bind a function to this and I've tried using...
$('a.close-apply-now').on('click', function(){
alert('asdasd');
});
with no luck, can anybody see where I may be going wrong? Not even my alert is working.

Since the close-apply-now div is added dynamically, you need to use event delegation to register the event handler like:
// New way (jQuery 1.7+) - .on(events, selector, handler)
$('body').on('click', 'a.close-apply-now', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
alert('asdasd');
});
This will attach your click event to any anchors with class close-apply-now within the body element.

The syntax for event delegation is slightly different.
The event need to be bind to an element which is already existing in the dom while the target element selector needs to be passed as the second argument
$(document).on('click', 'a.close-apply-now', function(){
alert('asdasd');
});

The close-apply-now div is added dynamically. You have to add the selector parameter, otherwise the event is directly bound (doesn't work for dynamically loaded content) instead of delegated. See http://api.jquery.com/on/#direct-and-delegated-events
Change your code to
$(document.body).on('click', '.update' ,function(){
The jQuery set receives the event then delegates it to elements matching the selector given as argument. This means that contrary to when using live, the jQuery set elements must exist when you execute the code.
Use jQuery's live() method. Description: Attach an event handler for all elements which match the current selector, now and in the future.
$("a.close-apply-now").live("click", function(){
alert('asdasd');
});
Try Both in Jsfiddle

Trapping all `a` clicks including ones added dynamcally

I know you can bind to click events with jQuery like so:
$('a').click(function(){});
But what about html elements that are added dynamically? Lets say I have a div with the following contents:
<div>
<a href='location.html'>location</a>
</div>
Now I call:
$('a').click(
function(){
console.log("going to " + $(this).attr('href'));
return true;
});
And that will work fine. But if somewhere along the line I call
$('div').("<a href='location2.html'>location2</a>");
without explicitly binding that event handler to that event then the event handler will pick up on it.
Is it possible to rebind when ever a new a element is added. Or even better, when ever the location.href property is changing so I can add a get parameter to it every time.
For example if I was binding to a click event on an a element the event handler would be:
function(){
var newid = parseInt(Obj.Request('pageid'), 10) + 1;
location.href = $(this).attr('href') + '?pageid=' + newid.toString();
return false;
}
Assuming the Obj.Request is a function that returns a get parameter. (I already have this in place).

Use it in this manner:
$(document).on( 'click', 'a', function() {
console.log("going to " + $(this).attr('href'));
return true;
});
Working on your fiddle link.

You want to use the function .on.

$('a').on('click', function() {
//works on non dynamic elements present at page load
});
$('#some_non_dynamic_parent_ID').on('click', 'a', function() {
//works on dynamic elements added later
});

You want to use .on(), but as a delegation method.
Bind it to the closest static parent - for this example I'll just use body.
$('body').on('click', 'a', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
});
This will wait until the event bubbles up to the body element and check what the original target of the event was - if it was an a element, it'll fire the handler.

You can use .on() or live() functions if you use jquery upper then 1.7 version. About the difference of these functions you can read in this article

Get attribute during .on event in Jquery

So, I have 10 links like this:
and on function. Like this:
$(document).on("click", ".testclass", function () {
alert($(this).attr('data-test'));
});
I cannot understand how can I get data-test attribute for a specific a tag in this case. $(this) returns document object and not a

You have to bind the listener to the anchor, not the document:
$('a.testclass').on('click', function() {
alert($(this).data('test'));
})
And data function is the right way to get data attached to a DOM element.

jquery or js code to obtain exact node data for currently selected form item/text/image in a web page

I want to obtain the exact details for the item on a web page that has been clicked on, using jquery.
That item can be a form item (like a checkbox, text box, text area etc) or section of text (in a paragraph or div or other) or list or image ...
What I figured out is the following--
$(function(){
$('*')
.bind('click', function(event) {
//now obtain details of item that has been clicked on...
});
});
Now, I want the exact details- viz the div id/form id/paragraph #, ie all details for that particular item. How do i get this data? I understand that this data is available in the DOM but I just dont know how to get it in this particular case...

Probably the best way to do to use the target property of the event. By default, this returns a non-jQuery object, which isn't particularly useful, however wrapping it in $() solves this issue:
$(function() {
$(document).bind('click', function(event) {
var element = $(event.target);
alert(element.height()); // Get height
alert(element.attr('id')); // Get ID attribute
// ...
});
});
If you want to fix your current method, inside your click() handler, you can access the properties of that element using .attr(), and friends:
$(function() {
$('*').bind('click', function(event) {
alert($(this).height()); // Get height
alert($(this).attr('id')); // Get ID attribute
// ...
});
});
$(this) in the scope of the function references the element that was clicked. There is a list of functions that will return attributes here and here in the jQuery docs. $.attr('id') will return the element's ID, among other things, and $.data() will return data-* attributes.
To get attributes of parent elements, simply use $(this).parent(). For example, to get the ID of the form that contains the clicked element, use $(this).closest('form').attr('id');. Everything is relative to the clicked element ($(this)), so you can just use the DOM traversal functions.
However, using $('*').bind() is incredibly inefficient; you're binding an event handler to every element on the page, when really you should delegate events with .on() (jQuery 1.7+):
$(function() {
$('body').on('click', '*', function(event) {
alert($(this).height()); // Get height
alert($(this).attr('id')); // Get ID attribute
// ...
});
});
This approach only binds one event to <body> instead of an event to every element on the page.

Use the target of click event on page
$(document).click(function(event){
/* store native dom node*/
var tgt=event.target;
/* store jQuery object of dom node*/
var $tgt=$(tgt);
/* example element details*/
var details={ id : tgt.id, height: $tgt.height(), tag : tgt.tagName}
console.log( details)
})

Look at the event.target, and then you can use jQuery's .parents() method to look at every ancestor:
$(document).on('click', function(event) {
var $t = $(event.target); // the element that was actually clicked
var $p = $t.parents(); // the target's parents
var $form = $p.filter('form').first(); // the enclosing form, if it exists
});