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jqueryObject.selector property
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8 years ago
Hello,
The documentation
http://api.jquery.com/selector/ says that the selector property is going
to be deprecated soon. However, i see that the selector property is
available in all versions of jQuery upto 2.1.1. So does this mean
that this feature is going to be removed from all versions or only
in the latest version? Also, can you explain why this is being
deprecated. This feature seems quite useful when trying to identify
the element on which say, an event listener was registered.
We are trying to write a wrapper
around the .on functionality so that all events get delegated to the
container event though the events are being bound at an element level.
For example: say there exists a
parent container <div class="parent-container"></div>.
There exists a child element div#123.
And we have our own custom _on method. If someone uses
$("#123")._on("click", handler), we'd like to
hijack this listener and delegate the event to the parent container
as $(".parent-container").on("click",
"#123", handler). In this case, the most efficient way to
get selector used in _on is through the selector property. Was
wondering if you can suggest a more efficient way to achieve the
same, if the selector property is being deprecated.
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