Get dynamically inserted HTML to work with knockoutjs

Question

I'm using JQuery DataTables for all my tables because of all the nice built-in features, but it seems the only way to customize the table layout is to set the "sDom" option attribute for the DataTable and use something like $("div.SOMECLASS").html(HTML_HERE) to insert the customized html into the table. (FYI, i'm just trying to customize the header).

The problem is I want the inserted html to use knockoutjs binding. Knockout doesn't seem to initialize the binding this way.

Is there a way to work around this?

This is part of the html that I want to insert. It's pretty much a drop down list of some custom filter functions for the table.

'<li><a data-bind="click: Filter(\'Severity 1\', 2)">Severity 1</a></li>'

Glycolysis

with Jquery you can use .live or .on to handle dynamic created content – Venter

Possible duplicate of knockout data-bind on dynamically generated elements – Vitriform

Answer 1

You have to call this function after insert dynamic HTML element

ko.applyBindings(viewModel, elementContainingDynamicContent)

Example here http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/FCN5p/

Venter

This is the correct answer, I'm not sure why it was so difficult to find. It can't be that uncommon to need to load page content dynamically. Thanks! – Clute

Note to all, for this to work, use document.getElementById("elementId") to get a DOM element; don't use jquery $('#elementId'), otherwise, ko raises an error: tinyurl.com/laaqf7j – Cacia

If you already have the jQuery element, $element[0] also works. – Vinaya