Audio Event Does Not Trigger Jquery On Play Event

I try to execute a function on an audio play event : jQuery('audio').on('play', function () { /* ... */ }); But my element is not present at the time this function is executed, s

Solution 1:

Apparently media events( those specifically belonging to audio or video like play, pause, timeupdate, etc) do not get bubbled. you can find the explanation for that in the answer to this question.

So using their solution, I captured the play event,

jQuery.createEventCapturing(['play']);  
jQuery('body').on('play', 'audio', function(){... // now this would work.

JS Bin demo

the code for event capturing( taken from the other SO answer):

    jQuery.createEventCapturing = (function () {
        var special = jQuery.event.special;
        returnfunction (names) {
            if (!document.addEventListener) {
                return;
            }
            if (typeof names == 'string') {
                names = [names];
            }
            jQuery.each(names, function (i, name) {
                var handler = function (e) {
                    e = jQuery.event.fix(e);

                    return jQuery.event.dispatch.call(this, e);
                };
                special[name] = special[name] || {};
                if (special[name].setup || special[name].teardown) {
                    return;
                }
                jQuery.extend(special[name], {
                    setup: function () {
                        this.addEventListener(name, handler, true);
                    },
                    teardown: function () {
                        this.removeEventListener(name, handler, true);
                    }
                });
            });
        };
    })();