Turning live() into on() in jQuery

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The on documentation states (in bold ;)):

Event handlers are bound only to the currently selected elements; they must exist on the page at the time your code makes the call to .on().

Equivalent to .live() would be something like

$(document.body).on('change', 'select[name^="income_type_"]', function() {
    alert($(this).val());
});

Although it is better if you bind the event handler as close as possible to the elements, that is, to an element being closer in the hierarchy.

Update: While answering another question, I found out that this is also mentioned in the .live documentation:

Rewriting the .live() method in terms of its successors is straightforward; these are templates for equivalent calls for all three event attachment methods:

$(selector).live(events, data, handler);                // jQuery 1.3+
$(document).delegate(selector, events, data, handler);  // jQuery 1.4.3+
$(document).on(events, selector, data, handler);        // jQuery 1.7+

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