live vs delegate vs on

Benchmark created by PeeHaa on

Preparation HTML

<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.7.min.js"></script>

Setup

var html = '<div><a href="http://example.com">Example</a></div>';

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Testing in
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.live()
$(function() {
  $('a').live('click', function() {
  
  });

  $('body').append(html);
});
ready
.delegate() on container
$(function() {
  $('div').delegate('a', 'click', function() {
  
  });

  $('body').append(html);
});
ready
.delegate() on body
$(function() {
  $('body').delegate('a', 'click', function() {
  
  });

  $('body').append(html);
});
ready
.on()
$(function() {
  $('body').on('click', 'a', function() {
  
  });

  $('body').append(html);
});
ready

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