Move a node without losing its event handler.
jQuery: detach retains jQuery data and events for reinsertion.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="a"><button>Move me</button></div><div id="b"></div><output></output>
<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$('button').on('click',()=> $('output').text('clicked'));
$('#b').append($('button').detach());
</script>
</body>
</html>Expected output EXAMPLE
The button moves from #a to #b, leaving #a empty. Clicking the moved button still displays "clicked", because its event handler survives detach().
Details
Save as example.html beside jquery.min.js (jQuery 3.5.1). The browser test uses that local library and checks the resulting behavior. detach retains jQuery data and events for reinsertion.
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · · Chromium 141.0.7390.37 · libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0; jQuery 3.5.1
Test inputs, results and environment
The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Unprivileged snippet process, external networking disabled, read-only root filesystem, and a fresh temporary working directory. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.
- Architecture / host kernel
- x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
- Snippet identity / locale
- uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged) / C.UTF-8
- Interpreter invocation
Chromium: open example.html; execute the published browser assertions- Container image ID
sha256:32dc2d998158b6554c99b73b533f423696a0f3e31e8cbea9db10b5eee9a2fadd- Code SHA-256
d1d990e26be6bbea077ef7ced544dc5507a22d0e3ac66ab0a2f6bba919348ef6- Dependencies
- libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0; jQuery 3.5.1
Test input setup
These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.
# No input files required.
Observed standard output
Expected output describes the rendered page. The standard-output record below is the browser test harness receipt; the additional assertions check the result and interactions.
Move a node without losing its event handler: browser checks passed.
Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Shape/content assertions. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.
Additional assertions that passed
Checks recorded by the test harness. Where Python assertions are shown, browser cases use Playwright and simulator cases may inspect pin transitions: result.stdout is captured output, work is the temporary directory, and Path is pathlib.Path. The harness also imports json and csv.
await page.locator('#b button').click()
assert await page.locator('output').inner_text()=='clicked'
assert await page.locator('#a').inner_html()==''