[javascript] Adding click event for a button created dynamically using jQuery

How to add a button click event on a button that was added dynamically using jQuery?

The jQuery code that adds the dynamic buttons inside a div container:

$('#pg_menu_content').empty();
$div = $('<div data-role="fieldcontain"/>');
$("<input type='button' value='Dynamic Button' id='btn_a' />").appendTo($div.clone()).appendTo('#pg_menu_content');

Question 1: How can I add a click event for the above button? I tried the below and it has not triggered

$("#btn_a").click(function(){
  alert ('button clicked');
});

Question 2: How can I get the value of the button inside the click event? For example I want to get the value 'Dynamic Button' inside the click event function.

Can you guys please help me on this.

Question 1: Use .delegate on the div to bind a click handler to the button.

Question 2: Use $(this).val() or this.value (the latter would be faster) inside of the click handler. this will refer to the button.

$("#pg_menu_content").on('click', '#btn_a', function () {
  alert($(this).val());
});

$div = $('<div data-role="fieldcontain"/>');
$("<input type='button' value='Dynamic Button' id='btn_a' />").appendTo($div.clone()).appendTo('#pg_menu_content');

Just create a button element with jQuery, and add the event handler when you create it :

var div = $('<div />', {'data-role' : 'fieldcontain'}),
    btn = $('<input />', {
              type  : 'button',
              value : 'Dynamic Button',
              id    : 'btn_a',
              on    : {
                 click: function() {
                     alert ( this.value );
                 }
              }
          });

div.append(btn).appendTo( $('#pg_menu_content').empty() );

FIDDLE

Use

$(document).on("click", "#btn_a", function(){
  alert ('button clicked');
});

to add the listener for the dynamically created button.

alert($("#btn_a").val());

will give you the value of the button