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Get clicked element in delegated event with jQuery

I have some elements that I add to the DOM after the page has been loaded. And I'd like to perform some actions when I click on them. I'm using the delegation with jQuery but I don't know how to get the clicked element when I'm in the fonction ($(this) refers in this case to the parent)
<div id="parent">
<div class="child">
<div class="hidden"></div>
</div>
<div class="child">
<div class="hidden"></div>
</div>
</div>
<script>
$('#parent').click('.child', function(){
$(this).find('.child').toggleClass("hidden displayed")
});
</script>
Let's say I want to toggle the inner div from "hidden" to "displayed" when I click on the "child" div. Currently when I click on the first "child" div, the two "hidden" div will be toggled, and I want to be toggled only the one in the div I clicked.

Use e.target to find out which element the event originated on.
$('#parent').on('click', '.child', function(e){
$(e.target).toggleClass("hidden displayed")
});
I also fixed the code a bit - you need to use .on for delegated events. (Mentioned by Barmar.)

You need to use .on() to delegate events. As the documentation says:
When jQuery calls a handler, the this keyword is a reference to the element where the event is being delivered; for directly bound events this is the element where the event was attached and for delegated events this is an element matching selector.
So it should be:
$('#parent').on('click', '.child', function() {
$(this).toggleClass("hidden displayed");
};
Your use of .click('.child', function...) does not do delegation. It matches the function signature:
.click(eventData, handler)
described here. So it's just binding to the parent, not delegating to the child, that's why you get the wrong value in this.

jquery on not working properly

I have the following jquery code
$(".delete").on('click', function (e){
e.preventDefault();
var id = $(this).prop('id');
console.log('Delete button id: '+id);
var formWrapper = $(".form-wrapper:nth-child("+id+")");
console.log(formWrapper);
formWrapper.remove();
});
the delete .delete is on a button inside a form
<button class="btn btn-danger delete">-<button>
and the button is loaded on the paged ynamically after the page has loaded. So I used the on function to attach the click event on it. But it won't work and the function is never called. Isn't on supposed to work not only for elements that are on the page during load but for those that get loaded afterwards?

You are saying that the particular button is getting loaded to the DOM dynamically, so in this context you have to use event-delegation to make your code working.
Normally your code will register event for the element with the class .delete immediately after the DOM loaded. Actually we dont have any elements with that identity at that time, So this context is opt for event-delegation.
I actually dont know the exact dom structure of yours, so that i have used document to delegate the click event, But you should prefer some static parent of that element to implement it,
Try,
$(document).on("click",".delete", function (e){

You need to use event delegation for dynamically generated elements. thus use .on() using delegated-events approach.
i.e.
$(document).on('event','selector',callback_function)
Use
$(document).on('click',".delete", function (e){
In place of document you should use closest static container.
The delegated events have the advantage that they can process events from descendant elements that are added to the document at a later time. By picking an element that is guaranteed to be present at the time the delegated event handler is attached, we can use delegated events to bind the click event to dynamically created elements and also to avoid the need to frequently attach and remove event handlers.

you should either use,
$(document).on('click',".delete", function (){});
or
$(".delete").click(function(){});

You can try jquery delegate() Method.
In jquery version 7 there was a term live however in latest one its removed and replace with delegate
you can check below example
HTML
< div class="delete"> Click Here < /div >
Javascript
$(document).delegate( ".delete", "click", function() {
alert("Hi")
});

This might help: http://jsfiddle.net/webcarvers/7Qtd7/
HTML:
<button id="one" class="delete"type="button">Id on me</button>
<div id="one">This is the div to remove</div>
JS:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("button.delete").on('click', function(){
var id = $(this).attr("id");
$("div#"+id).remove();
});
});

How to add onclick to Div with a specific class name?

I have a few generated div's on my page listing events on a calender, they all have the same class "fc-event-inner". I would like to add a onclick to these div's but am struggling to get this right.
This is what iv tried, no onclick is added and no errors on page.
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.fc-event-inner').each(
function (element) {
Event.observe("click", element, EventClick);
}
);
function EventClick() {
alert("You clicked an event")
}
});
This is an example of a generated event div:
<div class="fc-event-inner">
<span class="fc-event-title">Requested<br>by Santa</span>
</div>

Use the delegate version of on
$(document).on("click", ".fc-event-inner", function(){
/// do your stuff here
});
This catches the click at the document level then applies the class filter to see if the item clicked is relevant.
Example JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/BkRJ2/
In answer to comment:
You can access the clicked element via this inside the event function. e.g.
$(document).on("click", ".fc-event-inner", function(){
var id = this.id; // Get the DOM element id (if it has one)
var $this = $(this); // Convert DOM element into a jQuery object to do cool stuff
$this.css({'background-color': 'red'}); // e.g. Turn clicked element red
});
*Note: You should never have to run an Each in order to catch events on multiple items that have a common class.

You do not need each() to bind event to elements with specific class, just selector is enough. Use jQuery on() with event delegation it will bind event to those which are generted after the binding code.
$(document).on("click", ".fc-event-inner", function(){
alert("click");
});
Delegated events
Delegated events have the advantage that they can process events from
descendant elements that are added to the document at a later time. By
picking an element that is guaranteed to be present at the time the
delegated event handler is attached, you can use delegated events to
avoid the need to frequently attach and remove event handlers, jQuery doc.

<div class="fc-event-inner">
<span class="fc-event-title">Requested<br />by Santa</span>
</div>
Your JS:
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.fc-event-inner').on("click", EventClick);
function EventClick() {
alert("You clicked an event")
}
});
</script>
http://jsfiddle.net/UBhk9/
Some explanation:
Because you are using a class(it may be used multiple times, in contrast to an id) it will work for all the elements with this class name. The .on method will attach the event handler(in this example "click") to the selector(the class .fc-event-inner). If you want to remove events bounds you've to use the .off() method and if you only want to attach the event once you can use the .one() method.

Why is a jQuery function still called once the class or id used as the selector has been removed from the HTML?

http://jsfiddle.net/q98G6/
HTML
<p>[QUESTION]</p>
<div class="answer-notdone">
<p>[CONTENT_1]</p>
</div
<div class="answer-notdone">
<p>[CONTENT_2]</p>
</div
<div class="answer-notdone">
<p>[CONTENT_3]</p>
</div
JavaScript
$(".answer-notdone").click(function(){
markQuestion(this); //external function
$(".answer-notdone").addClass('answer-complete').removeClass('answer-notdone');
)};
The example above is for a multiple choice question in a quiz - the user should only be able to click the answer once, and then it should be 'unlinked' from that jQuery function.
But the problem is even after the class has been removed successfully, the jQuery function is still called when clicked. Why?
Here is a fiddle I made of a demo, if the code above was not clear: http://jsfiddle.net/q98G6/

The selector is only used to find the elements, once the element is found and the event handler is attached to it, the selector does not have any relevance because the handlers are attached to the element not to the selector.
One way to solve the problem is to make use event delegation. In event delegation the handlers are attached to an ancestor element and we pass a selector as a target element. In this method the target selector is evaluated lazily.
$(document).on('click', ".answer-notdone", function(){
markQuestion(this); //external function
$(".answer-notdone").addClass('answer-complete').removeClass('answer-notdone');
)};

The selector returns all the elements that match it at the time you bind the handler, and then it attaches the handler to all those elements. Changing an element's class later does not remove the event handlers that were already bound.
If you want your handler to be bound to dynamically changing elements, you should use delegation:
$(document).on('click', '.answer-notdone', function() {
...
});

Try this
$(document).on('click',".answer-notdone",function () {
//markQuestion(this);
$(".answer-notdone").addClass('answer-complete').removeClass('answer-notdone');
});
FIDDLE DEMO

JQuery: on doesn't work properly

I have create dynamic html buttons and I want to set click event to them. Here is my html output and codes :
<td style="width:90px;">
<input type="button" class="btn_Yeni" id="btnYeni"></td>
$(".btn_Yeni").on("click", function () {
alert('asd');
});
$(".btn_Yeni").trigger("click");
Nothing happens after I click the button. Do you have any suggestion?

Since the html buttons are added dynamically, you need to use event delegation to register the event handler like:
// New way (jQuery 1.7+) - .on(events, selector, handler)
$(document).on('click', '.btn_Yeni', function(event) {
alert('asd');
});
UPDATE
Since, the buttons are added to a table cells, as visible in your HTML markup, you can do this:
$('#tableID').on('click', '.btn_Yeni', function(event) {
alert('asd');
});
This will attach your event to any button within the #tableID element,
reducing the scope of having to check the whole document element tree and increasing efficiency.

Since you have dynamic buttons you need to use event delegation.
Just using .on() to register event handlers does not make use of event delegation, it has a very specific format for making use of event delegation. The event should be attached to an element which is already present in the page(like the document object in the below case) then the dynamic element selector has to be passed as the second parameter to the on() method
$(document).on("click", ".btn_Yeni", function () {
alert('asd');
});

This is the approach when using dynamic elements.
$("body").on("click",".btn_Yeni", function () {
alert('asd');
});
How is it done:
the handler is not attached to the element itself ( cuz it does not exists when registering) -
so you attach the handler to the body element. and via event bubbling - the delegate element is checked(against) when it reaches the body ( where the handler is actually attached to).

I have put together a fiddle for you to explore dynamic button additions and using the on method for event delegation.
<ul id="btnCollection">
<li>
<input type="button" class="btn_Yeni" value="Your Button" />
</li>
</ul>
var button = $("#btnCollection:last-child").html();
$("#btnCollection").on("click", ".btn_Yeni", function (event) {
alert("Adding another button");
$("#btnCollection").append(button);
});
http://jsfiddle.net/itanex/yak7c/

DEMOenter link description here
$(document).on("click", ".btn_Yeni", function () {
alert('asd');
});
function addrow(){
var $tr = $("#baserow")
var $clone=$tr.clone();
$tr.after($clone);
}