jQuery event delegation

Benchmark created by Scott Kosman on

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Test runner

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Testing in
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no delegation
$('table').find('td').on('click', function() {
  $(this).toggleClass('active');
});
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with delegation
$('table').on('click', 'td', function() {
  $(this).toggleClass('active');
});
ready

Revisions

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